Performance Management and Budgeting in the Federal Government: Brief History and Recent Developments. CRS Report for Congress
Abstract
The Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (Public Law 103-62), known as GPRA or the Results Act, sought to promote greater efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability in federal spending by establishing a new framework for performance management and budgeting in federal agencies. GPRA represents the latest in a series of initiatives in the last 55 years attempting to link budget levels with expected results, so that spending decisions can be better aligned with anticipated performance, an approach commonly referred to as "performance budgeting." On April 9, 2001, President Bush transmitted his budget for FY2002, in which various steps to strengthen the linking of budget and management decisions to performance were endorsed. This was followed in August by the President's Management Agenda for improving performance; one of five government-wide initiatives identified was budget and performance integration. On February 4, 2002, President Bush transmitted his budget for FY2003, which introduced a Management Scorecard, to measure agency progress on the initiatives. The FY2003 budget also contained initial efforts at performance analysis of over 100 programs that were used to inform funding decisions, constituting the first time a President's budget submission attempted formally to link budget requests with program performance. A new program assessment rating tool (PART) was developed in 2002, and was used by agency program managers and OMB staff to evaluate over 200 programs during the course of formulating the FY2004 budget. The PART reviews have continued and expanded, covering 40% of programs in the FY2005 budget and 60% of programs in the President's FY2006 budget submission. In Congress, interest continues in monitoring the PART process, as well as in the Administration's budget and performance integration initiative and ongoing implementation of GPRA.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 16, 2005
- Accession Number
- ADA436206
Entities
People
- Virginia A. Mcmurtry
Organizations
- Library of Congress