The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is often called the investigative arm of Congress. This week they investigated a variety of issues, such as border security, individual retirement accounts, terrorism, and the Coast Guard. If you would like to know more about the GAO, check out the library's guide.Reports
- American Samoa: Issues Associated with Potential Changes to the Current System for Adjudicating Matters of Federal Law. GAO-08-655, June 27.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-655
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08655high.pdf - Border Security: State Department Should Plan for Potentially Significant Staffing and Facilities Shortfalls Caused by Changes in the Visa Waiver Program. GAO-08-623, May 22.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-623
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08623high.pdf - Bureau of Indian Education Schools: Improving Interior's Assistance Would Help Some Tribal Groups Implement Academic Accountability Systems. GAO-08-679, June 27.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-679
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08679high.pdf
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Human Capital Planning Has Improved, but Strategic View of Contractor Workforce Is Needed. GAO-08-582, May 28.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-582
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08582high.pdf - Coast Guard: Change in Course Improves Deepwater Management and Oversight, but Outcome Still Uncertain. GAO-08-745, June 24.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-745
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08745high.pdf - Coast Guard: Strategies for Mitigating the Loss of Patrol Boats Are Achieving Results in the Near Term, but They Come at a Cost and Longer Term Sustainability Is Unknown. GAO-08-660, June 23.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-660
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08660high.pdf - Combating Terrorism: Increased Oversight and Accountability Needed over Pakistan Reimbursement Claims for Coalition Support Funds. GAO-08-806, June 24.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-806
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08806high.pdf - Critical Infrastructure Protection: Further Efforts Needed to Integrate Planning for and Response to Disruptions on Converged Voice and Data Networks. GAO-08-607, June 26.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-607
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08607high.pdf - Defense Production Act: Agencies Lack Policies and Guidance for Use of Key Authorities. GAO-08-854, June 26.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-854
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08854high.pdf - Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: Sharing Promising Practices and Fully Implementing Strategic Human Capital Planning Can Improve Management of Growing Workload. GAO-08-589, June 23.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-589 - Homeland Security: DHS Risk-Based Grant Methodology Is Reasonable, But Current Version's Measure of Vulnerability is Limited. GAO-08-852, June 27.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-852
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08852high.pdf - Homeland Security: First Responders' Ability to Detect and Model Hazardous Releases in Urban Areas Is Significantly Limited. GAO-08-180, June 27.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-180
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08180high.pdf - Peacekeeping: Thousands Trained but United States Is Unlikely to Complete All Activities by 2010 and Some Improvements Are Needed. GAO-08-754, June 26.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-754
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08754high.pdf - Securing, Stabilizing, and Rebuilding Iraq: Progress Report: Some Gains Made, Updated Strategy Needed. GAO-08-837, June 23.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-837
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08837high.pdf - Young Adults with Serious Mental Illness: Some States and Federal Agencies Are Taking Steps to Address Their Transition Challenges. GAO-08-678, June 23.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-678
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08678high.pdf
- Medicare Advantage Organizations: Actual Expenses and Profits Compared to Projections for 2005. GAO-08-827R, June 24.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-827R - Military Operations: Actions Needed to Better Guide Project Selection for Commander's Emergency Response Program and Improve Oversight in Iraq. GAO-08-736R, June 23.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-736R - Secure Border Initiative Fiscal Year 2008 Expenditure Plan Shows Improvement, but Deficiencies Limit Congressional Oversight and DHS Accountability. GAO-08-739R, June 26.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-739R
- Border Security: State Department Expects to Meet Projected Surge in Demand for Visas and Passports in Mexico, by Jess T. Ford, director, international affairs and trade, before the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization and Procurement, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. GAO-08-931T, June 25.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-931T
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08931thigh.pdf - Combating Terrorism: U.S. Oversight of Pakistan Reimbursement Claims for Coalition Support Funds, by Charles Michael Johnson, Jr., director, international affairs and trade, before the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. GAO-08-932T, June 24. (2 p.m.)
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-932T
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08932thigh.pdf - Fiscal Year 2007 U.S. Government Financial Statements: Sustained Improvement in Financial Management Is Crucial to Improving Accountability and Addressing the Long-Term Fiscal Challenge, by Gene L. Dodaro, acting comptroller general of the United States, before the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. GAO-08-926T, June 26.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-926T
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08926thigh.pdf - Individual Retirement Accounts: Government Actions Could Encourage More Employers to Offer IRAs to Employees, by Barbara D. Bovbjerg, director, education, workforce, and income security, before the Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures, House Committee on Ways and Means. GAO-08-890T, June 26.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-890T
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08890thigh.pdf - Military Construction: Kaiserslautern Military Community Center Project Continues to Experience Problems, by Gregory D. Kutz, managing director, forensic audits and special investigations, and Terrell G. Dorn, director, physical infrastructure, before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. GAO-08-923T, June 25.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-923T
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08923thigh.pdf - Risk Management: Strengthening the Use of Risk Management Principles in Homeland Security, by Norman J. Rabkin, managing director, homeland security and justice, before the Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection, House Committee on Homeland Security. GAO-08-904T, June 25.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-904T
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08904thigh.pdf
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