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Original publisher: Washington, D.C. (441 G St., NW, Rm. LM, Washington, 20548) : U.S. General Accounting Office, [1999]. OCLC Number: (OCoLC)43734831 Subject: Government travel -- United States. Excerpt: ... B-283221 and ( 3 ) general operating expense accounts are very large, compared with the amount of excess travel funds. A recurring directive that appears in Senate Appropriations Committee reports directs VA to " notify the chairman of the Committee prior to each reprogramming of funds in excess of $ 250, 000 between programs, 17 activities, or elements.... " In commenting on a draft of this report, VA officials said that VA does not view switching excess travel funds to other object classes to be reprogramming that is covered by the Senate Committee report language; and, therefore, VA has not notified the committee when such switches occur. We do not agree with VA for several reasons. First, as defined by the 18 Glossary of Terms Used in the Federal Budget Process, reprogramming is the " [ s ] hifting of funds within an appropriation or fund account to use them for different purposes than that contemplated at the time of appropriation ( for example, obligating budgetary resources for a different object class from the one originally planned ). " Second, although the language in the Senate committee reports directs VA to notify the committee of reprogramming of programs, activities, or elements exceeding $ 250, 000, there is nothing in the committee report to indicate that the committee used such language in an attempt to modify the generally accepted definition of reprogramming set forth above, or otherwise to exclude reprogramming of funds from one object class to another that exceeded the $ 250, 000 threshold. Third, congressional concern about VA's travel and the way in which it uses those funds is evident from its long-standing inclusion of a provision in VA's annual appropriations acts that limits VA's travel expenditures to the amounts requested for tr
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