What is the Administration doing to advance the use of the PART by Congress?
Congress is an important partner in the PART process. The Administration is inviting Members of Congress and other stakeholders to review the PART details and provide feedback to OMB on the conclusions OMB and agencies have made in answers to PART questions. In addition to meetings with individual Members, the Administration has sponsored numerous briefings for committee and subcommittee staff on the PART. We have also brought agency officials and Congressional staff together to discuss the particular challenges associated with integrating performance information into the budget process. The Administration will also provide the list of programs that will be PARTed in preparation for the FY 2006 Budget and continue to actively solicit input to the PART process from Members of Congress and their staffs. To further support the use of the PART in congressional deliberations, agencies will include relevant PART findings in congressional justifications and testimony. In general, because the
