2 U.S.C. § 685 : US Code - Section 685: Transmission of messages; publication

Search 2 U.S.C. § 685 : US Code - Section 685: Transmission of messages; publication

(a) Delivery to House and Senate
Each special message transmitted under section 683 or 684 of this
title shall be transmitted to the House of Representatives and the
Senate on the same day, and shall be delivered to the Clerk of the
House of Representatives if the House is not in session, and to the
Secretary of the Senate if the Senate is not in session. Each
special message so transmitted shall be referred to the appropriate
committee of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Each such
message shall be printed as a document of each House.
(b) Delivery to Comptroller General
A copy of each special message transmitted under section 683 or
684 of this title, shall be transmitted to the Comptroller General
on the same day it is transmitted to the House of Representatives
and the Senate. In order to assist the Congress in the exercise of
its functions under section 683 or 684 of this title, the
Comptroller General shall review each such message and inform the
House of Representatives and the Senate as promptly as practicable
with respect to - 
(1) in the case of a special message transmitted under section
683 of this title, the facts surrounding the proposed rescission
or the reservation of budget authority (including the probable
effects thereof); and
(2) in the case of a special message transmitted under section
684 of this title, (A) the facts surrounding each proposed
deferral of budget authority (including the probable effects
thereof) and (B) whether or not (or to what extent), in his
judgment, such proposed deferral is in accordance with existing
statutory authority.
(c) Transmission of supplementary messages
If any information contained in a special message transmitted
under section 683 or 684 of this title is subsequently revised, the
President shall transmit to both Houses of Congress and the
Comptroller General a supplementary message stating and explaining
such revision. Any such supplementary message shall be delivered,
referred, and printed as provided in subsection (a) of this
section. The Comptroller General shall promptly notify the House of
Representatives and the Senate of any changes in the information
submitted by him under subsection (b) of this section which may be
necessitated by such revision.
(d) Printing in Federal Register
Any special message transmitted under section 683 or 684 of this
title, and any supplementary message transmitted under subsection
(c) of this section, shall be printed in the first issue of the
Federal Register published after such transmittal.
(e) Cumulative reports of proposed rescissions, reservations, and
deferrals of budget authority
(1) The President shall submit a report to the House of
Representatives and the Senate, not later than the 10th day of each
month during a fiscal year, listing all budget authority for that
fiscal year with respect to which, as of the first day of such
month - 
(A) he has transmitted a special message under section 683 of
this title with respect to a proposed rescission or a
reservation; and
(B) he has transmitted a special message under section 684 of
this title proposing a deferral.
Such report shall also contain, with respect to each such proposed
rescission or deferral, or each such reservation, the information
required to be submitted in the special message with respect
thereto under section 683 or 684 of this title.
(2) Each report submitted under paragraph (1) shall be printed in
the first issue of the Federal Register published after its
submission.