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 Budget and Accounting Procedures Act of 1950 to require that the Comptroller General have access to such information as is necessary to audit Federal expenditures which heretofore were accounted for solely on the approval, authorization, or certificate of the President or an official of an executive agency. Prohibits an employee of the General Accounting Office (GAO) from releasing any information concerning such an expenditure to anyone except: (1) the President or the head of the agency concerned; (2) another GAO employee; or (3) a committee or subcommittee of Congress. Permits the President to exempt from such access, information concerning foreign intelligence or counterintelligence activities. States that such exempted information and information concerning expenditures of the Central Intelligence Agency 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: (1) apply to the United States District Court for the …