{"identifier":"/us/usc/t31/s712","title":31,"num":"\u00a7\u202f712.","heading":"Investigating the use of public money","text":"\u00a7\u202f712.\nInvestigating the use of public money\nThe Comptroller General shall\u2014\n(1) investigate all matters related to the receipt, disbursement, and use of public money;\n(2) estimate the cost to the United States Government of complying with each restriction on expenditures of a specific appropriation in a general appropriation law and report each estimate to Congress with recommendations the Comptroller General considers desirable;\n(3) analyze expenditures of each executive agency the Comptroller General believes will help Congress decide whether public money has been used and expended economically and efficiently;\n(4) make an investigation and report ordered by either House of Congress or a committee of Congress having jurisdiction over revenue, appropriations, or expenditures; and\n(5) give a committee of Congress having jurisdiction over revenue, appropriations, or expenditures the help and information the committee requests.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t31/s712.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t31/s712","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f712."},{"t":"heading","text":"Investigating the use of public money","tail":"\n"},{"t":"chapeau","text":"The Comptroller General shall\u2014"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t31/s712/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" investigate all matters related to the receipt, disbursement, and use of public money;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t31/s712/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" estimate the cost to the United States Government of complying with each restriction on expenditures of a specific appropriation in a general appropriation law and report each estimate to Congress with recommendations the Comptroller General considers desirable;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t31/s712/3","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(3)"},{"t":"content","text":" analyze expenditures of each executive agency the Comptroller General believes will help Congress decide whether public money has been used and expended economically and efficiently;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t31/s712/4","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(4)"},{"t":"content","text":" make an investigation and report ordered by either House of Congress or a committee of Congress having jurisdiction over revenue, appropriations, or expenditures; and","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t31/s712/5","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(5)"},{"t":"content","text":" give a committee of Congress having jurisdiction over revenue, appropriations, or expenditures the help and information the committee requests.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}