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      "title": "Commission on the Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies (CARFA): A Brief Overview of Legislative Proposals",
      "summary": "In the 109th Congress, nearly identical bills have been introduced (S. 1155/H.R. 2470) that, if enacted, would establish a 12-member Commission on the Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies (CARFA). Subsequently, a modified version of the legislation was introduced (S. 3521, in Title IV, Subtitle B) that would establish a 15-member Commission on Congressional Budgetary Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies. In addition, a bill providing for one or more Federal Review Commissions was introduced (H.R. 5766) that contains provisions that are both similar to and different from the CARFA legislation in several respects. On July 20, 2006, the House Committee on Government Reform marked up and ordered H.R. 5766 to be reported with an amendment, along with H.R. 3282, a bill that would provide for the automatic termination of agencies unless reauthorized by Congress. The House was to take up these two bills on July 27, 2006, but the House leadership postponed floor action. Under each version of the proposed CARFA-related legislation, in a two-party political system, the majority of commission members would be appointed by members of the same political party as the sitting President. Each version would require the commission to review most or all executive agencies and programs to determine if any are \u201cduplicative,\u201d \u201cwasteful,\u201d \u201cinefficient,\u201d \u201coutdated,\u201d \u201cirrelevant,\u201d or \u201cfailed.\u201d The commission would be required (or in some cases allowed) to recommend that any such programs and agencies be \u201crealigned\u201d or eliminated. The commission\u2019s recommendations would be packaged into a bill that would receive expedited congressional consideration (e.g., could not be amended or filibustered). Potential issues of congressional interest include the commission\u2019s membership; the scope of the commission\u2019s review and recommendations; definitions of key terms; standards and criteria for decision making, including the proposal\u2019s relationship to the Bush Administration\u2019s Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART); expedited congressional consideration; and transparency and participation. This report will be updated.",
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