Secret Service Protection of the Secretary of the Treasury

Reconsideration was requested of a decision concerning Secret Service protection for the Secretary of the Treasury. The determination that funds appropriated to the Secret Service are not available for protection of the Secretary of the Treasury was reaffirmed, and the administrative transfer to the Secret Service of the function of protecting the Secretary does not make Secret Service appropriations available for that purpose. The fiscal year (FY) 1976 appropriation is available for such protection since Congress acquiesced in the intended use of the Secret Service appropriation for protection of the Secretary of the Treasury. However, no useful purpose would be served by requiring reimbursement of the Secret Service appropriation from the appropriation for the Office of the Secretary of the Treasury for the period from the prior decision until FY 1976.