[Note: The following language, which calls for a true accounting of the costs of competitive sourcing activities, was approved by House and Senate conferees and passed by the Senate 91-3. The final step for passage is submission to the House. It was sent to the House but its filing was blocked by Congressional allies of the Administration. Ultimately, Transportation and Treasury Appropriations was rolled into the Omnibus Appropriations bill and, with Democrats completely excluded from the process, this bipartisan language was stripped out and replaced with the sham “incremental costs” of Public Law 108-199. -m]

108th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 2989

Making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation and Treasury, the Executive Office of the President, and certain independent agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.

This Act may be cited as the `Transportation, Treasury, and General Government Appropriations Act, 2004'.

SEC. 741. Not later than December 31 of each year, the head of each agency shall submit to Congress a report on the competitive sourcing activities performed during the previous fiscal year by Federal Government sources that are on the list required under the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-270; 31 U.S.C. 501 note). The report shall include--

(1) the number of full time equivalent Federal employees studied for competitive sourcing;

(2) the total agency cost required to carry out its competitive sourcing program;

(3) the costs attributable to paying outside consultants and contractors to carry out the agency's competitive sourcing program;

(4) the costs attributable to paying agency personnel to carry out its competitive sourcing program; and

(5) an estimate of the savings attributed as a result of the agency competitive sourcing program.