General Accounting Office Act of 1979

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] General Accounting Office Act of 1979 - Title I: General Accounting Office Provisions - Amends the Accounting and Auditing Act of 1950 to require that the Comptroller General be furnished any information he requests which relates to any Federal expenditure which is subject to a GAO audit, including those expenditures which heretofore were accounted for only on the certificate of the President. Exempts from the terms of this Act any information concerning: (1) the expenditures of the Central Intelligence Agency; and (2) financial transactions relating to foreign intelligence or counterintelligence activities, as determined by the President. Provides that such exempted information shall be reviewable by the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate. Amends the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 to authorize the Comptroller General to bring an action in the United States District Court of the District of Columbia to compel the furnishing of such information. Authorizes the Comptroller General to subpena contractor's and subcontractor's records pertaining to negotiated contracts and records of other non-federal persons…