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Government Watchdog Says Ditch the Dollar Bill
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U.S. Government May Make $15B on AIG
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is the audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of the United States Congress, and thus an agency in the Legislative Branch of the United States Government.The GAO was established as the General Accounting Office by the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 (, , June 101921). This Act required the head of GAO to "investigate,...

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Forest Service issues notice of intent to award "Next Generation" airtanker contracts
May 06, 2013
WASHINGTON, May 6, 2013 -- U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell announced today that the Forest Service has issued a notice of intent to award contracts to five...

Ryan Alexander: A Reasonable Food Fight
April 26, 2013
April 24, 2013 - President Barack Obama wants to revamp Washington's global food aid system. His 2014 budget request would transfer much of the program from the...

21 groups call for moratorium on Powder River coal in letter to new Interior Secretary Sally Jewell
April 16, 2013
WASHINGTON, D.C. April 15, 2013 - The leaders of 21 organizations welcomed Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell to her first day on the job with a letter...

GAO Report Finds NRC Does Not Understand "Shadow Evacuation" Phenomenon at Nuclear Reactor Sites
April 10, 2013
April 10, 2013 - The U.S. Government Accountability Office today released a report finding that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission does not adequately understand...

Obama administration intervenes to give $71.5 billion to overpaid, for-profit Medicare Advantage plans
April 09, 2013
April 9, 2013 - Medicare's costs will jump by $7.43 billion next year – the equivalent of $149 for each of the nearly 50 million beneficiaries in the program –...

Federal Pipeline Safety Vacuum Magnifies Risks
April 10, 2013
WASHINGTON, D.C. April 10, 2013 - In a week witnessing three major pipeline spills, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the entity supposed to be our first...

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Iowa View: We need a free- market agriculture policy
May 03, 2013 | DesMoinesRegister.com
According to the Government Accountability Office, this sugar program increases food prices by $2 billion every year. American households pay nearly twice the world price for...

Homeland security grants need better oversight, audit says
May 02, 2013 | indystar.com
We really do not know,'' David Maurer, director of the Government Accountability Office's homeland security and justice team recently told a House panel led by Indiana Rep....

Iowa View: Congress does right thing with Medicare provision
April 18, 2013 | DesMoinesRegister.com
In fact, the Government Accountability Office issued a report saying that Medicare'' does not know whether the bundled payment in 2014 will be sufficient to cover the costs.''...

How much does a mammogram cost?
April 12, 2013 | indystar.com
The Government Accountability Office, the watchdog arm of Congress, tried in 2011 to see for itself how difficult it is for patients to get meaningful price information before a...

U. S. report backs bullet train revenue forecasts
March 29, 2013 | Los Angeles Times
The California bullet train project has reasonable ridership and revenue forecasts, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office, but it could be doing a...

Indiana better than some states, worse than others, with gun background checks
March 29, 2013 | indystar.com
'' The Government Accountability Office reported last year that the number of mental- health records in the system increased 800 percent from 2004 through 2011. But most of the...

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