1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Metro Efficiency, Transparency, Reliability, Oversight, Accountability and Reform Act or the METRO Accountability and Reform Act . 2. Definitions For the purposes of this Act: (1) Academy The term Academy means the National Academy of Public Adminstration. (2) Appropriate Congressional Committees The term appropriate congressional committees means— (A) the House Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Oversight and Government Reform, the Judiciary, and Appropriations; and (B) the Senate Committees on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Banking, Housing, and Urban Development; the Judiciary; and Appropriations. (3) Authority The term Authority means the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority established under article III of the compact ( Public Law 89–774