---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 721"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "721"
heading: "Access to certain information"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/721"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — General"
  - "Chapter 7 — Government Accountability Office"
  - "Subchapter II — General Duties and Powers"
---

# §721. Access to certain information

- (a) No provision of the Social Security Act, including section 453(l) of that Act ([42 U.S.C. 653(l)](/usc/42/653.md?p=l)), shall be construed to limit, amend, or supersede the authority of the Comptroller General to obtain any information or to inspect any record under [section 716 of this title](/usc/31/716.md).
- (b) The specific reference to a statute in [subsection (a)](#a) shall not be construed to affect access by the Government Accountability Office to information under statutes that are not so referenced.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 115–3, § 2(a), Jan. 31, 2017, 131 Stat. 7.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Social Security Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is act Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, 49 Stat. 620, which is classified generally to chapter 7 (§ 301 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 1305 of Title 42 and Tables.