Mike Enzi: “This amendment creates a new and stable funding source for the Governmental Accounting Standards Board. The GASB serves…”

“This amendment creates a new and stable funding source for the Governmental Accounting Standards Board. The GASB serves an important function to provide pronouncements on accounting and financial reporting for State and local governments, and their work should be commended. However, I must clearly make a point that for the purpose of this amendment, and the work of the GASB, that financial reporting be defined as the ``presentation of objective historical financial data on the financial position and resource inflows and outflows of State and local governments, as well as information necessary to demonstrate compliance with finance-related legal or contractual provisions.''”