* GAO Report: Increased Use of Alaska Native 8 ( a ) Firms Calls for Increased Oversight

According to the May 2005 Government Accountability Office ( GAO ) Perchlorate Report, an EPA official has estimated about 10 million people may have been exposed to perchlorate through their drinking water.

( See GAO Report — Perchlorate: A System to Track Sampling and Cleanup Results is Needed — Report to the Chairman, Dr. Adam Dierkers, Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives — May 2005 ).

As part of its initiative to advocate sustainability, the GAO publishes a Federal Fiscal Outlook Report, as well as data relating to the deficit.

A 2005 Government Accountability Office ( GAO ) Report found that the production of these supplemental items was the primary cause of rapidly increasing prices:

* GAO Report

* In 1996, Baker Requested GAO Report on HANO Mismanagement of New Orleans Public Housing.

The 1999 GAO Report that analyzed the LTCM experience criticized federal regulators for not coordinating their oversight of LTCM ’ s activities with banks and securities firms.

The GAO Report did not consider, and did not recommend, CFTC regulation of OTC derivatives.

In an April 2007 United States Government Accountability Office ( GAO ) Report on Title Insurance, the GAO recommended that state and federal legislators and regulators improve consumers ability to shop for title insurance based on price, encourage price competition, and ensure consumers are paying reasonable prices for title insurance.

* GAO Report: Border Patrol-Southwest Border Enforcement Affected by Mission Expansion and Budget August 1992

* GAO Report: Border Control-Revised Strategy is Showing Some Positive Results December 1994

* g96065. pdf GAO Report: Border Patrol-Staffing and Enforcement Activities March 1996

* GAO Report: ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION-Southwest Border Strategy Results Inconclusive ; More Evaluation Needed December 1997

* GAO Report: ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION-Status of Southwest Border Strategy Implementation 1999

* GAO Report: Border Patrol Hiring December 1999

* GAO Report: Southwest Border Strategy-Resource and Impact Issues Remain After Seven Years August 2001

* GAO Report: Effectiveness of Border Patrol Checkpoints July 2005

( Initial Pre-911 GAO Report While they were unanimous in their support of more scientific research, scientists and others expressed widely varying views on the social policy question of whether brain fingerprinting should continue to be applied to bring criminals and terrorists to justice and to free innocent suspects while this research continues.

The initial GAO report was entitled " Federal Agency Views on the Potential Application of ‘ Brain Fingerprinting .’" ( Initial Pre-911 GAO Report ).

* White House – Travel Office Operations – GAO Report GAO / GGD-94-132.

On September 19, 2007, GAO analysts voted by a margin of two to one ( 897 – 445 ), in a 75 % turnout, to establish the first union in GAO's 86-year history.

An update was published in 2004 by the GAO covering the period between September 21, 1996 ( when DOMA was signed into law ) and December 31, 2003.

GAO / GGD-96-175, September 3, 1996.

* In September, 2005, the GAO concluded that the Department of Education had violated the law when it distributed a similar video news release using Karen Ryan as a " reporter " touting the No Child Left Behind program of the Bush administration.

On September 19, 2007, GAO analysts voted by a margin of two to one ( 897 – 445 ), in a 75 % turnout, to establish the first union in GAO's 86-year history.

A Government Accountability Office ( GAO ) report in September 2009 found that agency auditors failed to follow basic auditing standards in 65 of 69 audits.

According to the GAO study published July 2005:

Expenditures on direct-to-users advertising have more than quintupled in the seven years between 1997 and 2005 since the FDA changed the guidelines, from $ 1. 1 billion in 1997 to more than $ 4. 2 billion in 2005, a 19. 6 % annual increase, according to the United States GAO ( Government Accountability Office, 2006 ).

Between fiscal years 2003 and 2005, the total dollar amount of all grants awarded to FBOs increased by 21 percent ( GAO 2006: 43 ).

In fact, a 2005 GAO report found that, if the barriers had built, the flooding would have been worse.

The GAO was established as the General Accounting Office by the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921.

This Act required the head of GAO to " investigate, at the seat of government or elsewhere, all matters relating to the receipt, disbursement, and application of public funds, and shall make to the President ... and to Congress ... reports recommendations looking to greater economy or efficiency in public expenditures ".

The name was changed in 2004 by the GAO Human Capital Reform Act to better reflect the mission of the office.

Following the 2004 GAO report at least one bill, the Uniting American Families Act, has been proposed to attempt to remedy some of the differences in rights between same-sex partnerships and marriages.

* 2004-07-07 — GAO Human Capital Reform Act of 2004,,

A 1988 GAO report found that the Jones Act was costing Alaskan families between $ 1, 921 and $ 4, 821 annually for increased prices paid on goods shipped from the mainland.

The GAO Human Capital Reform Act of 2004 () is a United States federal law designed to provide new human capital flexibilities with respect to the Government Accountability Office, and for other purposes.

The most recent GAO plan, for 2010-2015, sets out four goals, namely to address: ( 1 ) Current and Emerging Challenges to the Well-being and Financial Security of the American People ; ( 2 ) Changing Security Threats and the Challenges of Global Interdependence ; ( 3 ) Transformation of the Federal Government to Address National Challenges ; ( 4 ) Maximization of the Value of the GAO.

According to a GAO report cited in Computerworld, 450 of the 481 Army National Guard soldiers from six Special Forces units had at least one pay problem associated with their mobilization.

The GAO issued a critical report concluding that the Army spent funds on R & D efforts that did not address validated BW threats and may have duplicated the research efforts of the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health.