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DR. JENKINS: In other words, you don't go for
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this strictly executive budget?
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MR. LAUBER: I'm a strong executive budget man.
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I think it is possible to go too far and handcuff the
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legislature, so they can't carry out their responsibilities
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I think after the appropriation is made, it goes back to
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the executive and the executive is responsible for spending
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it and the legislature ought to have this unit I talked
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about, a post-audit basis, just to keep tabs on it.
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MR. BROOKS: Pursuant to that, would you recom-
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mend that the legislature have an auditor, that is, an
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officer of the legislature for such post-auditing function?
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MR. LAUBER: Ye's. If you understand the post-
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audit in this sense does not mean an accounting of it,-
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yes. I have advocated this in New York and I would
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certainly argue the same thing here. It needs an officer
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who, in my terminology I call a legislature analyst,
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you can call him legislative auditor, or whatever you want,
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whose responsibility would be to follow all programs,
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correlate results with expenditures and give this informa-
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tion to the legislature for them to evaluate, is it worth
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