Government Reform Act of 2007
Latest action · May 16, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMay 9, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Government Reform Act of 2007 - Establishes a Government Reform Commission to: (1) examine the current configuration of executive agencies and investigate their duties and responsibilities; (2) review agency operational jurisdictions to determine whether areas of overlap exist and whether the mission of any agency has become obsolete; (3) review and report to the President and Congress on existing Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congressional Budget Office (CBO), and Inspector General reports, together with any other existing governmental and nongovernmental recommendations, including those offered by the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, for reducing waste in executive agencies; (4) submit to the President and Congress a proposed reorganization plan which shall provide for the realignment or closure of executive agencies to reduce duplication of services and increase productivity; and (5) transmit a copy of the plan to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), who shall issue a public report detailing the predicted savings in federal expenditures that would result from implementing such plan.
Sets forth separate provisions for presidential and congressional consideration of and actions on the proposed reorganization plan.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Referred May 9, 2007 |
| Government Operations Subcommittee | Referred May 16, 2007 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 16, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
- May 9, 2007Introduced in House
- May 9, 2007Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To create a national commission, modeled after the successful Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission, to establish a timely, independent, and fair process for realigning or closing outdated, ineffective, or inefficient executive agencies.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Government Reform Act of 2007
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.
- Administrative procedure
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Congressional veto
- Cost accounting
- Cost control
- Economics and Public Finance
- Executive orders
- Executive reorganization
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal budget process
- Federal budgets
- Government downsizing
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Governmental investigations
- Law
- Legislation
- Legislative resolutions
- Nonprofit organizations
- Presidential appointments
- Presidential commissions
- Privatization
- Productivity in government
- Public meetings
- Social Welfare
- Waste in government spending
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 9, 2007Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
