Delegation of Certain Congressional Reporting Functions
Headline: Delegates Congressional Reporting Duties to Cabinet and Agency Heads
What it does: Agencies must submit to Congress the recurring reports that the President would otherwise provide.
- Shifts responsibility for many recurring congressional reports to specific agency leaders.
- Clarifies that the Office of Management and Budget's budget and administrative roles remain unchanged.
- Specifies the reports do not create enforceable legal rights for private parties.
Summary
This order transfers the President's responsibility for submitting certain recurring reports to Congress to named department and agency leaders. It lists reports the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Commerce, the Director of Central Intelligence, and the Director of National Drug Control Policy must submit.
The order says these changes are for internal management, do not affect the Office of Management and Budget's budget roles, preserve the President's constitutional authorities, and do not create new legal rights for private parties.
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