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GSA Travel Regulations
General Services Administration
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Vice President
For Immediate Release
Thursday, September 24, 1998
Contact: (202) 456-7035
VICE PRESIDENT GORE PRESENTS THIRD PLAIN LANGUAGE AWARD
Announces First Full Session of the Plain Language Action Network
Washington, DC - Vice President Gore presented two General Service Administration (GSA) employees the third Plain Language Award today for their rewrite of a GSA travel rule.
Jim Harte and Umeki Thorne, both program analysts at GSA, clarified and streamlined a 194-word rule on government-sponsored travel down to 45 words. "Their work makes the rules easier to understand - and to follow," Vice President Gore said. "This is about making our government work better for our dedicated employees and for our customers - the America people."
Today's "No Gobbledygook Award" builds on President Clinton's June 1st Executive Memorandum that directed all executive departments and agencies to make government documents clearer and more straightforward, with a goal of having all existing letters and notices into plain language by 2002.
The Vice President also announced that the Plain Language Action Network (PLAN) will hold its first full session today. PLAN, comprised of representatives from every cabinet department and dozens of federal agencies, is dedicated to monitoring government compliance to President Clinton's memorandum on Plain Language.
"I ask all of the members of PLAN, as you go into your meeting, to commit yourselves to the principles of plain language," Vice President Gore said. "Plain speaking helps create understanding, and understanding helps create trust. And trust - especially trust in our government's ability to understand and be understood by our citizens - is essential if we are to move forward as a government and a people."
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Section 301.10.8 What is my liability if, for personal convenience, I travel or use an indirect route?
If you travel on government business by anything other than the most direct, least cost route available, you must pay for the added costs so the taxpayers don't.
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