This is this weeks Government Accountability Office reports. To learn more about the GAO, read the library's guide. You may have actually heard about GAO's testimony before Congress this week on Katrina, check out the testimony further down this entry, or read the highlights online.
Reports:
1. Intellectual Property: Strategy for Targeting Organized Piracy (STOP) Requires Changes for Long-Term Success. GAO-07-74, November 8.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-07-74
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d0774high.pdf
2. Information Technology: DOD Needs to Ensure That Navy Marine Corps Intranet Program Is Meeting Goals and Satisfying Customers. GAO-07-51, December 8.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-07-51
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d0751high.pdf
3. GSA Fleet: Information on the Effect of Donating Cars to YouthBuild USA and Potential Benefits to Rural YouthBuild Participants. GAO-07-153, December 8.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-07-153
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d07153high.pdf
4. No Child Left Behind Act: Education's Data Improvement Efforts Could Strengthen the Basis for Distributing Title III Funds. GAO-07-140, December 7.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-07-140
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d07140high.pdf
5. End-Stage Renal Disease: Bundling Medicare's Payment for Drugs with Payment for All ESRD Services Would Promote Efficiency and Clinical Flexibility. GAO-07-77, November 13.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-07-77
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d0777high.pdf
6. Export Controls: Agencies Should Assess Vulnerabilities and Improve Guidance for Protecting Export-Controlled Information at Universities. GAO-07-70, December 5.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-07-70
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d0770high.pdf
7. Export Controls: Agencies Should Assess Vulnerabilities and Improve Guidance for Protecting Export-Controlled Information at Companies. GAO-07-69, December 5.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-07-69
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d0769high.pdf
8. Financial Literacy and Education Commission: Further Progress Needed to Ensure an Effective National Strategy. GAO-07-100, December 4.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-07-100
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d07100high.pdf
2. VA Health Care: Spending for Mental Health Strategic Plan Initiatives Was Substantially Less Than Planned. GAO-07-66, November 21.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-07-66
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d0766high.pdf
Testimonies:
1. End-Stage Renal Disease: Medicare Payments for All ESRD Services, Including Injectable Drugs, Should Be Bundled, by David M. Walker, comptroller general of the United States, before the House Committee on Ways and Means. GAO-07-266T, December 6.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-07-266T
2. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Disaster Relief: Continued Findings of Fraud, Waste, and Abuse, by Gregory D. Kutz, managing director, forensic audits and special investigations, before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. GAO-07-252T, December 6.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-07-252T
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d07252thigh.pdf
3. Energy Employees Compensation: GAO's Prior Work Has Identified Needed Improvements in Various Aspects of the Program, by Daniel Bertoni, acting director, education, workforce, and income security issues, before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims, House Committee on the Judiciary. GAO-07-233T, December 5.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-07-233T
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d07233thigh.pdf
4. Improper Payments: Incomplete Reporting under the Improper Payments Information Act Masks the Extent of the Problem, by David M. Walker, comptroller general of the United States, before the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information,
and International Security, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. GAO-07-254T, December 5.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-07-254T
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d07254thigh.pdf
5. Postsecondary Education: Multiple Tax Preferences and Title IV Student Aid Programs Create a Complex Education Financing Environment, by Michael Brostek, director, strategic issues, before the Senate Committee on Finance. GAO-07-262T, December 5.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-07-262T
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d07262thigh.pdf
Presentation by Comptroller General:
"Modernizing Accountability Organizations in Times of Fiscal Constraint" by David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States, before the National Intergovernmental Audit Forum, in Silver Spring, Maryland. GAO-07-251CG, December 1, 2006.
http://www.gao.gov/cghome/d07251cg.pdf
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