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      "date": "2002-12-20",
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      "title": "Government Performance and Results Act: Overview of Associated Provisions in the 106th Congress",
      "summary": "The Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (P. L. 103-62, known as GPRA, or the\nResults Act) established a new framework for performance management and budgeting in federal\nagencies. In complying with GPRA, agencies must set goals, devise performance measures, and\nassess results achieved. This report identifies and analyzes provisions in public laws and committee\nreports from the 106th Congress (1999-2000) relating to GPRA and its implementation, including\ncomparisons to similar provisions in the 104th and 105th Congresses. The purpose of these studies\nis to review ways in which Congress and its committees engage in oversight of GPRA, and, more\ngenerally, monitor implementation efforts by the executive branch agencies. \n  Online databases were used to identify language of potential interest in committee reports and\nin the public laws from the 106th Congress. The resulting electronic files were examined and\npruned,\nwith the remaining relevant excerpts captured for further analysis.* This approach covered specific\ncitations to GPRA, as well as provisions that are or might be deemed associated with GPRA, such\nas performance measures and strategic plans. The research identified 42 public laws from the 106th\nCongress containing statutory language relating to GPRA and performance measurement. Two of\nthese laws were omnibus measures containing GPRA-associated provisions from 10 separate bills,\narguably better counted as 10 items rather than two, for a total of 50 enacted measures from the\n106th\nCongress with GPRA-related provisions. Previous CRS studies identified 14 public laws with\nperformance-related provisions enacted during the 104th Congress, and 28 in the 105th. Although\nthe\nrate of increase of 100% from the 104th to the 105th in the number of public laws with\nGPRA-associated provisions was not quite sustained, the rate of increase from the 105th to the 106th\nwas significant at almost 79%.\n  In addition to statutes with GPRA-associated provisions, a search of committee reports \nidentified 24 additional public laws from the 106th Congress that contained GPRA-associated\npassages in accompanying reports, compared with 17 laws so identified in the 105th. Thus a total\nof\n74 laws enacted in the 106th Congress were determined to have GPRA-relevant provisions in\nstatutory language or in committee report language, compared with a total of 45 public laws from\nthe 105th Congress with GPRA-relevant provisions in statute or accompanying reports.\n  Congressional efforts to oversee GPRA implementation continued in the 107th Congress. \nMoreover, the inclusion of budget and performance integration as a key initiative in the President's\nManagement Agenda arguably has increased attention to GPRA-related issues in the executive\nbranch. This report, with its focus on the 106th Congress, will not be updated, but other CRS\nproducts on GPRA and performance management and budgeting will be revised and expanded as\nevents warrant.\n    \n *Genevieve Knezo, Resources, Science, and Industry Division, participated equally with the author\nin this phase of the research, and her contributions are gratefully acknowledged.",
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  "topics": [
    "American Law",
    "Economic Policy",
    "Foreign Affairs",
    "Health Policy",
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