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2 U.S.C. § 603 — Public access to budget data

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2 U.S.C. § 603 — Public access to budget data

**(a) Right to copy** Except as provided in subsections (c), (d), and (e), the Director shall make all information, data, estimates, and statistics obtained under section 601(d) and (e) of this title available for public copying during normal business hours, subject to reasonable rules and regulations, and shall to the extent practicable, at the request of any person, furnish a copy of any such information, data, estimates, or statistics upon payment by such person of the cost of making and furnishing such copy. **(b) Index** The Director shall develop and maintain filing, coding, and indexing systems that identify the information, data, estimates, and statistics to which subsection (a) applies and shall make such systems available for public use during normal business hours. **(c) Exceptions** Subsection (a) shall not apply to information, data, estimates, and statistics— (1) which are specifically exempted from disclosure by law; or (2) which the Director determines will disclose— (A) matters necessary to be kept secret in the interests of national defense or the confidential conduct of the foreign relations of the United States; (B) information relating to trade secrets or financial or commercial information pertaining specifically to a given person if the information has been obtained by the Government on a confidential basis, other than through an application by such person for a specific financial or other benefit, and is required to be kept secret in order to prevent undue injury to the competitive position of such person; or (C) personnel or medical data or similar data the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy; unless the portions containing such matters, information, or data have been excised. *

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**(a) Right to copy** Except as provided in subsections (c), (d), and (e), the Director shall make all information, data, estimates, and statistics obtained under section 601(d) and (e) of this title available for public copying during normal business hours, subject to reasonable rules and regulations, and shall to the extent practicable, at the request of any person, furnish a copy of any such information, data, estimates, or statistics upon payment by such person of the cost of making and furnishing such copy. **(b) Index** The Director shall develop and maintain filing, coding, and indexing systems that identify the information, data, estimates, and statistics to which subsection (a) applies and shall make such systems available for public use during normal business hours. **(c) Exceptions** Subsection (a) shall not apply to information, data, estimates, and statistics— (1) which are specifically exempted from disclosure by law; or (2) which the Director determines will disclose— (A) matters necessary to be kept secret in the interests of national defense or the confidential conduct of the foreign relations of the United States; (B) information relating to trade secrets or financial or commercial information pertaining specifically to a given person if the information has been obtained by the Government on a confidential basis, other than through an application by such person for a specific financial or other benefit, and is required to be kept secret in order to prevent undue injury to the competitive position of such person; or (C) personnel or medical data or similar data the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy; unless the portions containing such matters, information, or data have been excised. **(d) Information obtained for committees and Members** Subsection (a) shall apply to any information, data, estimates, and statistics obtained at the request of any committee, joint committee, or Member unless such committee, joint committee, or Member has instructed the Director not to make such information, data, estimates, or statistics available for public copying. **(e) Level of confidentiality** With respect to information, data, estimates, and statistics obtained under sections 601(d) and 601(e) of this title, the Director shall maintain the same level of confidentiality as is required by law of the department, agency, establishment, or regulatory agency or commission from which it is obtained. Officers and employees of the Congressional Budget Office shall be subject to the same statutory penalties for unauthorized disclosure or use as officers or employees of the department, agency, establishment, or regulatory agency or commission from which it is obtained.

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2 U.S.C. § 621 — Treatment of deposit insurance and agencies and other insurance programs

**(a) In general** This subchapter shall not apply to the credit or insurance activities of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, National Credit Union Administration, Resolution Trust Corporation, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, National Flood Insurance, National Insurance Development Fund, Crop Insurance, or Tennessee Valley Authority. **(b) Study** The Director and the Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall each study whether the accounting for Federal deposit insurance programs should be on a cash basis on the same basis as loan guarantees, or on a different basis. Each Director shall report findings and recommendations to the President and the Congress on or before May 31, 1991. **(c) Access to data** For the purposes of subsection (b), the Office of Management and Budget and the Congressional Budget Office shall have access to all agency data that may facilitate these studies.

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2 U.S.C. § 631 — Congressional declaration of purpose

The Congress declares that it is essential— (1) to assure effective congressional control over the budgetary process; (2) to provide for the congressional determination each year of the appropriate level of Federal revenues and expenditures; (3) to provide a system of impoundment control; (4) to establish national budget priorities; and (5) to provide for the furnishing of information by the executive branch in a manner that will assist the Congress in discharging its duties.

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5 U.S.C. § 3111 — Acceptance of volunteer service

**(a)** For the purpose of this section, “student” means an individual who is enrolled, not less than half-time, in a high school, trade school, technical or vocational institute, junior college, college, university, or comparable recognized educational institution. An individual who is a student is deemed not to have ceased to be a student during an interim between school years if the interim is not more than 5 months and if such individual shows to the satisfaction of the Office of Personnel Management that the individual has a bona fide intention of continuing to pursue a course of study or training in the same or different educational institution during the school semester (or other period into which the school year is divided) immediately after the interim. **(b)** Notwithstanding [section 1342 of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1342&num=0&edition=prelim), the head of an agency may accept, subject to regulations issued by the Office, voluntary service for the United States if the service— (1) is performed by a student, with the permission of the institution at which the student is enrolled, as part of an agency program established for the purpose of providing educational experiences for the student; (2) is to be uncompensated; and (3) will not be used to displace any employee. **(c)** (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), any student who provides voluntary service under subsection (b) of this section shall not be considered a Federal employee for any purpose other than for purposes of section 7905 (relating to commuting by means other than single-occupancy motor vehicles), chapter 81 (relating to compensation for injury) and sections 2671 through 2680 of title 28 (relating to tort claims). (2) In addit

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2 U.S.C. § 603 — Public access to budget data

Page 168 TITLE 2—THE CONGRESS § 603 hance comparisons of budget outlays, credit authority, and tax expenditures. (2) Federal mandate studies (A) At the request of any Chairman or rank- ing member of the minority of a Committee of the Senate or the House of Representatives, the Director shall, to the extent practicable, conduct a study of a legislative proposal con- taining a Federal mandate. (B) In conducting a study on intergovern- mental mandates under subparagraph (A), the Director shall— (i) solicit and consider information or comments from elected officials (including their designated representatives) of State, local, or tribal governments as may provide helpful information or comments; (ii) consider establishing advisory panels of elected officials or their designated rep- resentatives, of State, local, or tribal gov- ernments if the Director determines that such advisory panels would be helpful in per- forming responsibilities of the Director under this section; and (iii) if, and to the extent that the Director determines that accurate estimates are rea- sonably feasible, include estimates of— (I) the future direct cost of the Federal mandate to the extent that such costs sig- nificantly differ from or extend beyond the 5-year period after the mandate is first ef- fective; and (II) any disproportionate budgetary ef- fects of Federal mandates upon particular industries or sectors of the economy, States, regions, and urban or rural or other types of communities, as appro- priate. (C) In conducting a study on private sector mandates under subparagraph (A), the Direc- tor shall provide estimates, if and to the ex- tent that the Director determines that such estimates are reasonably feasible, of— (i) future costs of Federal private sector ma

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