1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Acting on the Annual Duplication Report Act of 2019 . 2. Findings; sense of Congress (a) Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) The annual reports prepared by the Comptroller General of the United States under section 21 of the Joint Resolution entitled Joint Resolution increasing the statutory limit on the public debt , approved February 12, 2010 ( 13 U.S.C. 712 note), have produced approximately $262,000,000,000 in financial benefits for the Federal Government. (2) The 2019 report entitled Additional Opportunities to Reduce Fragmentation, Overlap, and Duplication and Achieve Billions in Financial Benefits (GAO–19–285SP) identified 98 new actions that Congress or the executive branch can take to improve efficiency and effectiveness across the Federal Government, and potentially to save tens of billions of dollars. (3) Those financial benefits cannot be realized without full implementation of the actions and recommendations set forth by the Comptroller General. (4) Of the 98 new actions, several require legislation to be fully implemented, including— (A) expanding the definition of allowable expenses authorized by the Foreign Military Sales administrative account; (B) examining the optimal size of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve; (C) altering the metal composition of coins to reduce production costs; (D) requiring scannable codes on tax returns prepared electronically, but filed on paper; and (E) strengthening the accountability of schools for student loan defaults. (b) Sense of congress It is the sense of Congress that— (1) it is the responsibility of Congress and the executive branch to take action to implement recommendations made in the annual reports of the Government Accountability Office on reducing duplication in Federal programs to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars