general accounting office congress

• 12 USC 2275 - Sec. 2275. General Accounting Office audit; report to Congress

• U.S. Code - Title 12: Banks and Banking

• Too Many Food Agencies

The fact that 15 federal agencies oversee food safety should outrage anyone. It is a waste of money - which Congress is focusing on now. Worse, it is a huge threat to the public's health as shown by recent food contamination incidents. The General Accounting Office, the watchdog arm of Congress, was asked to review government agencies for duplication. The first area it looked at was the food safety agencies.

• Bangor Daily News
• March 09, 2011

• 2 USC 1371 - Sec. 1371. Study and recommendations regarding General Accounting Office, Government Printing Office, and Library of Congress

• U.S. Code - Title 2: The Congress

• 2 USC 654 - Sec. 654. Study by General Accounting Office of forms of Federal financial commitment not reviewed annually by Congress

• U.S. Code - Title 2: The Congress

• Schindler Elevator Corp. v. United States ex rel. Kirk, 563 U.S. (2011)

... FCA's public disclosure bar, which generally foreclosesqui tam suits that are "based upon the p.... . in a congressional, administrative, or Government Accounting Office r...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Security Clearance Backlog Proves Costly ; Gao Estimates 270,000 Pending Investigations

The government's backlog of defense security clearances, estimated to be as much as 270,000, is raising the salaries of those who hold them by 15 percent and costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars each year. As far back as 1981, the General Accounting Office, Congress' investigative arm, reported that nearly $1 billion was wasted each year because of the backlog. That much could be wasted even today, according to industry and former Defense Department officials who say the 90 days it should take to get a clearance has ballooned into 400 to 500 days.

• The Washington Times
• May 06, 2004

• Challenges Ahead for Mailers, Printers and the Usps

In July 2009 the General Accounting Office (GAO) returned the USPS to its list of high risk areas "needing attention by Congress and the executive branch to achieve broad-based transformation." The GAO predicts that mail volume will remain flat over the next five years, which means the USPS will not generate enough revenue to cover expenses and financial obligations.

• Quick Printing
• Vol. 33 Nbr. 5, February 2010

• Proenglish Blasts New Bilingual Ballot Burden

ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "Newly- released census numbers will impose new financial burdens on states and localities as bilingual voting provisions of the Voting Rights Act kick in," says ProEnglish Executive Director K.C. McAlpin after the Census Bureau released its list of jurisdictions required to provide bilingual ballots for the 2012 elections. The Census just announced today that 25 states and 248 counties are subject to this unfunded federal mandate which requires those jurisdictions to provide bilingual ballots despite two General Accounting Office reports revealing that such ballots are hardly ever used. In 1975 Congress amended the Voting Rights Act to add bilingual voting assistance for four protected language 'minority groups'-- American India...

• U.S. Newswire
• October 12, 2011

• Land-Grant Justice: Door's Still Open

In the quest for land-grant justice, a setback -- but maybe an opportunity .... Last weekend, the General Accounting Office, Congress' investigative branch, issued its findings on federal-government acquisition of millions of acres once held by Spanish and Mexican grantees; land now claimed by their heirs.

• The Santa Fe New Mexican
• June 19, 2004

• There Is a Solid Solution to Health-Care Crisis

On health care, most American politicians have it all wrong. When Democrats take over Congress next month, health care accessibility will be Topic No. 2, just below resolving the mess President Bush created in Iraq. The Republican answer on health care -- so-called health savings accounts (HSA's) -- doesn't allow low-income persons any possible way to save enough money for cancer treatment or other catastrophic illness. A General Accounting Office report to Congress this January on the government's experimental roll-out of these plans for federal workers showed those who elected to go the HSA route were younger and earned more money than the general population.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• December 17, 2006