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2 U.S.C. § 686 — Reports by Comptroller General
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**(a) Failure to transmit special message** If the Comptroller General finds that the President, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the head of any department or agency of the United States, or any other officer or employee of the United States—
(1) is to establish a reserve or proposes to defer budget authority with respect to which the President is required to transmit a special message under section 683 or 684 of this title; or
(2) has ordered, permitted, or approved the establishment of such a reserve or a deferral of budget authority;
and that the President has failed to transmit a special message with respect to such reserve or deferral, the Comptroller General shall make a report on such reserve or deferral and any available information concerning it to both Houses of Congress. The provisions of sections 682 to 688 of this title shall apply with respect to such reserve or deferral in the same manner and with the same effect as if such report of the Comptroller General were a special message transmitted by the President under section 683 or 684 of this title, and, for purposes of sections 682 to 688 of this title, such report shall be considered a special message transmitted under section 683 or 684 of this title.
**(b) Incorrect classification of special message** If the President has transmitted a special message to both Houses of Congress in accordance with section 683 or 684 of this title, and the Comptroller General believes that the President so transmitted the special message in accordance with one of those sections when the special message should have been transmitted in accordance with the other of those sections, the Comptroller General shall make a report to both Houses of the Congress setting forth his reasons.
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**(a) Failure to transmit special message** If the Comptroller General finds that the President, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the head of any department or agency of the United States, or any other officer or employee of the United States—
(1) is to establish a reserve or proposes to defer budget authority with respect to which the President is required to transmit a special message under section 683 or 684 of this title; or
(2) has ordered, permitted, or approved the establishment of such a reserve or a deferral of budget authority;
and that the President has failed to transmit a special message with respect to such reserve or deferral, the Comptroller General shall make a report on such reserve or deferral and any available information concerning it to both Houses of Congress. The provisions of sections 682 to 688 of this title shall apply with respect to such reserve or deferral in the same manner and with the same effect as if such report of the Comptroller General were a special message transmitted by the President under section 683 or 684 of this title, and, for purposes of sections 682 to 688 of this title, such report shall be considered a special message transmitted under section 683 or 684 of this title.
**(b) Incorrect classification of special message** If the President has transmitted a special message to both Houses of Congress in accordance with section 683 or 684 of this title, and the Comptroller General believes that the President so transmitted the special message in accordance with one of those sections when the special message should have been transmitted in accordance with the other of those sections, the Comptroller General shall make a report to both Houses of the Congress setting forth his reasons.
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If, under this chapter, budget authority is required to be made available for obligation and such budget authority is not made available for obligation, the Comptroller General is hereby expressly empowered, through attorneys of his own selection, to bring a civil action in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to require such budget authority to be made available for obligation, and such court is hereby expressly empowered to enter in such civil action, against any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States, any decree, judgment, or order which may be necessary or appropriate to make such budget authority available for obligation. No civil action shall be brought by the Comptroller General under this section until the expiration of 25 calendar days of continuous session of the Congress following the date on which an explanatory statement by the Comptroller General of the circumstances giving rise to the action contemplated has been filed with the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate.
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TITLE 2—THE CONGRESS
§ 686
mentary message transmitted under subsection
(c), shall be printed in the first issue of the Fed-
eral Register published after such transmittal.
(e) Cumulative reports of proposed rescissions,
reservations, and deferrals of budget author-
ity
(1) The President shall submit a report to the
House of Representatives and the Senate, not
later than the 10th day of each month during a
fiscal year, listing all budget authority for that
fiscal year with respect to which, as of the first
day of such month—
(A) he has transmitted a special message
under section 683 of this title with respect to
a proposed rescission or a reservation; and
(B) he has transmitted a special message
under section 684 of this title proposing a de-
ferral.
Such report shall also contain, with respect to
each such proposed rescission or deferral, or
each such reservation, the information required
to be submitted in the special message with re-
spect thereto under section 683 or 684 of this
title.
(2) Each report submitted under paragraph (1)
shall be printed in the first issue of the Federal
Register published after its submission.
(Pub. L. 93–344, title X, § 1014, July 12, 1974, 88
Stat. 335.)
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section was formerly classified to section 1404 of
Title 31 prior to the general revision and enactment of
Title 31, Money and Finance, by Pub. L. 97–258, § 1, Sept.
13, 1982, 96 Stat. 877.
Executive Documents
EX. ORD. NO. 11845. DELEGATION OF CERTAIN REPORTING
FUNCTIONS TO DIRECTOR OF OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT
AND BUDGET
Ex. Ord. No. 11845, Mar. 24, 1975, 40 F.R. 13299, as
amended by Ex. Ord. No. 12608, Sept. 9, 1987, 52 F.R.
34617, provided:
By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Im-
poundment Control Act of 19
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