S.Amdt. 305

SA 305. Mr. COBURN (for himself, Mr. Burr, Mr. DeMint, Mr. Chambliss, and Mr. Kyl) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 1, making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 431, after line 8, insert the following:

SEC. ___. SENATE COMMITTEE OVERSIGHT OF WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE.

Rule XXVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate is amended by adding at the end the following:

“14. (a)(1) Each standing committee, or a subcommittee thereof, shall hold at least one hearing during each 120-day period following the beginning of a Congress on the topic of waste, fraud, abuse, or mismanagement in Government programs which that committee may authorize.

“(2) A hearing described in clause (1) shall include a focus on the most egregious instances of waste, fraud, abuse, or mismanagement as documented by any report the committee has received from a Federal Office of the Inspector General or the Comptroller General of the United States.

“(b) Each committee, or a subcommittee thereof, shall hold at least one hearing in any session in which the committee has received disclaimers of agency financial statements from auditors of any Federal agency that the committee may authorize to hear testimony on such disclaimers from representatives of any such agency.

“(c) Each standing committee, or a subcommittee thereof, shall hold at least one hearing on issues raised by reports issued by the Comptroller General of the United States indicating that Federal programs or operations that the committee may authorize are at high risk for waste, fraud, and mismanagement, known as the ‘high-risk list' or the ‘high-risk series'.”.