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The '''Program Assessment Rating Tool''', or '''PART''', was a program run through the United States [[Office of Management and Budget]] instituted by President [[George W. Bush]] in 2002 to rate all federal programs on their effectiveness. By the conclusion of the Bush administration, PART was applied to just over 1,000 federal programs,

representing 98% of the federal budget. The Obama administration discontinued the use of PART assessments. Actual PART assessments can still be viewed among George W. Bush online presidential archives: httphttps://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/omb/expectmore/part.html

==History==

The PART was introduced in the 2004 Fiscal Year Federal budget, and explained by the Bush Administration as a program that built upon previous efforts of American Presidents to make sure federal programs were accountable and achieved results.<ref>{{cite web |author =| title=FY 2004 Budget Chapter Introducing the PART: Rating the Performance of Federal Programs | publisher=whitehouse.gov | date= February 7, 2005 | url=http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/part/| accessdate=2008-09-17 |archiveurl = httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20080616222524/http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/part/ <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2008-06-16}}</ref> The tool grew out of an early Bush administration blueprint for administration called the President's Management Agenda, which set a goal of integrating performance data with the federal budgeting process.

==Implementation==