§165 Evaluation and Audit of Mediation Board

Summary

The U.S. Comptroller General must check and audit how the Mediation Board runs its programs and spends money to help it work better and save money. These checks must happen at least once every two years, and can happen more often if the Comptroller General or certain congressional committees ask for them. The audit must look at things like information handling and privacy, how resources and staff are managed, buying and contracting, whether the Board uses good management practices, and how it handles investigations and decisions about who represents workers without outside pressure or coercion. Within 180 days after February 14, 2012, the Comptroller General must do a separate review of the Board’s rules for certifying or decertifying worker representatives and give recommendations to the Board and to the named congressional committees. That review must look at changes since the Board began, whether those changes fit what Congress intended, and how the Board’s processes compare to similar federal or state agencies. “Appropriate congressional committees” means the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.