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.

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 found that the waste encountered in Iraq is symptomatic of a wider inventory-control problem.

Supporting the Leach and Rubin arguments, Volcker testified that Congressional inaction had forced banking regulators and the courts to play “ catch-up ” with market developments by “ sometimes stretching established interpretations of law beyond recognition .” In 1997 Volcker testified this meant the “ Glass-Steagall separation of commercial and investment banking is now almost gone ” and that this “ accommodation and adaptation has been necessary and desirable .” He stated, however, that the “ ad hoc approach ” had created “ uneven results ” that created “ almost endless squabbling in the courts ” and an “ increasingly advantageous position competitively ” for “ some sectors of the financial service industry and particular institutions .” Similar to the GAO in 1988 and Representative Markey in 1990 Volcker asked that Congress “ provide clear and decisive leadership that reflects not parochial pleadings but the national interest .”

Over the years, GAO has been referred to as " The Congressional Watchdog " and " The Taxpayers ' Best Friend " for its frequent audits and investigative reports that have uncovered waste and inefficiency in government.

In October 2002, the Congressional General Accounting Office ( GAO ) identified Accenture as one of four publicly traded federal contractors that were incorporated in a tax haven country.

* Support agency staff, non-partisan employees of the Congressional Research Service ( CRS ), Congressional Budget Office ( CBO ), and Government Accountability Office ( GAO ).

* GAO: State Of the U. S. Commercial Airline Industry and Possible Issues for Congressional Consideration

Despite noting multiple reasons for rate increases, the report goes on to state that the " GAO found that losses on medical malpractice claims-which make up the largest part of insurers ’ costs-appear to be the primary driver of rate increases in the long run.

The GAO updated its study in 2010, noting that the number of candidates participating and the number of elections conducted under the system provided a stronger base for evaluating the programs.

He serves as a senior advisor with Booz Allen Hamilton, the Defense Policy Board, the advisory boards of Fleishman-Hillard, Computer Science Corporation, the Comptroller General ’ s Advisory Board of the GAO, and the Executive Committee of Military Ministry.

Separately, the General Accounting Office ( GAO ) submitted to a House subcommittee a report reviewing the benefits and risks of “ Glass-Steagall repeal .” The report recommended a “ phased approach ” using a “ holding company organizational structure ” if Congress chose “ repeal .” Noting Glass-Steagall had “ already been eroded and the erosion is likely to continue in the future ,” the GAO explained “ coming to grips with the Glass-Steagall repeal question represents an opportunity to systematically and rationally address changes in the regulatory and legal structure that are needed to better address the realities of the marketplace .” The GAO warned that Congress ’ s failure to act was “ potentially dangerous ” in permitting a “ continuation of the uneven integration of commercial and investment banking activities .”

In that context, GAO reviewed ( 1 ) the extent to which the Department of Transportation ’ s ( DOT ) and Department of Energy ’ s ( DOE ) assessment process helps ensure advisory group efforts are not duplicative and what challenges, if any, exist in assessing potential duplication, and ( 2 ) to what extent DOT and DOE advisory groups are useful in assisting their respective agencies in carrying out their missions and how the groups ’ usefulness could be enhanced.

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.

Regarding the trafficking of firearms from the U. S. into Mexico, the U. S. Government Accountability Office ( GAO ) issued a report in June 2009 which stated: “ While it is impossible to know how many firearms are illegally smuggled into Mexico in a given year, about 87 percent of firearms seized by Mexican authorities and traced in the last 5 years originated in the United States, according to data from Department of Justice ’ s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ( ATF ).

Government Accountability Office investigations of the Department of Defense are typically audits in which the Government Accountability Office ( GAO ), the United States Congress ’ investigative arm, studies how the Department of Defense spends taxpayer dollars.

Gregory Kutz, director of GAO ’ s financial management division, noted the Pentagon ’ s weak fiscal control over its subsidiaries – the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines – saying, " The Pentagon ’ s inability to even complete an audit shows just how far they have to go ".

Scholars believe, however, that the GAO ’ s authority could be undermined in the wake of a landmark case, Walker vs. Cheney.

This Federal lawsuit pertained to a GAO investigation into the Bush Administration ’ s Energy Task Force.

GAO ’ s independence is further safeguarded by the fact that its workforce consists of career civil servants hired on the basis of their knowledge, skill, and ability ".

However, the GAO, like all federal agencies, is subject to Congress ’ budgetary power.

The GAO ’ s Fiscal Year 2004 annual budget was $ 463. 6 million.

In contrast, GAO reports show that the Defense Department ’ s 2, 200 overlapping financial systems cost $ 18 billion a year to operate.

Madoff Trustee ’ s Actions to Be Probed by GAO, Representative Garrett Says

Even though FHA is statutorily required to be budget neutral, the GAO is projecting taxpayer funded subsidies of half a billion dollars over the next three years, if no changes are made to the FHA program.

In 1996 the agency received a Joint Meritorious Service Award for saving DOD and the taxpayer $ 6. 3 billion by using EMALL but a recent GAO report ( GAO 04-615 ) now questions the value of the program.

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 ".

As the GAO would later note, " Furthermore, the Laboratory's former laser director, who oversaw NIF and all other laser activities, assured Laboratory managers, DOE, the university, and the Congress that the NIF project was adequately funded and staffed and was continuing on cost and schedule, even while he was briefed on clear and growing evidence that NIF had serious problems ".

The GAO notes, " Poor communication between services within the Department of Defense and improper accounting results in the disposal of needed spare parts and the purchase of duplicative parts worth millions of dollars ".

But according to OMBWatch, " Sen. Ted Stevens ( R-AK ), chairman of the Appropriations Committee, met with GAO Comptroller General David Walker earlier in the year, and sources have reported that sharp cuts in the GAO $ 440 million budget were threatened if the lawsuit was pursued further ".

* Analyst with Gilford Securities-where he exposed Baldwin-United, which filed for bankruptcy thereafter.

He has served as Advisor to the President of Estonia, as Executive Secretary with the German Wissenschaftsrat during German reunification, and, as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, a Senior Legislative Analyst in the United States Congress.

Frequent analysts and contributors to the show include CNN's Chief National Correspondent John King, Chief Political Correspondent Candy Crowley, Senior Political Analyst David Gergen, Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash, Senior Business Correspondent Ali Velshi, Washington, DC Bureau Correspondent Joe Johns, David Mattingly, Investigative Reporters Randi Kaye and Gary Tuchman, Special Investigations reporter Drew Griffin, and Legal Analyst Jeff Toobin.

He has previously served as Director of Defense Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, as Principal Defense Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, as an investigator dealing with national security and intelligence for the Government Accountability Office, and on a House Committee on Foreign Affairs special investigation of allegations that the U. S. sold weapons to Iraq prior to 1991.

*" On Samhain, Archetypes and Psyche ’ s Experience of the Nurturing Darkness ~ The Red Book Reflections " blog post on Heidekolb's Blog by Heide M Kolb, Jungian Analyst

Analyst Paul Krugman writing in The New York Times agreed with Rawls ' position in which both equality of opportunity and equality of outcome were linked, and suggested that " we should try to create the society each of us would want if we didn ’ t know in advance who we ’ d be.

KGI ’ s academic programs prepare students for the following career paths: Bioinformatics, Business Development / Strategic Planning, Clinical Research Associate, Consulting, Financial Analyst, Internal Sales, Market Research Analyst / Competitor Evaluation / Technical Evaluation, Process Development, Product Development, Project Management, Research Associate ( Pre-clinical ), Sales Representative, and Technology Transfer.

During the campaign Bush promised to increase the defense budget, stating that “ America ’ s armed forces need better equipment, better training and better pay .” However Bush did not promise as much of an increase as Gore even going as far as to state “ If this is a race to see who can spend the most money, I ’ m going to lose .” Analyst William D. Hartung of the World Policy Institute points out that Gore promised $ 100 billion over 10 years while Bush promised $ 50 billion over the same period.

# Today ’ s Challenge in Government: What to do with Unstructured Information and Why Doing Nothing Isn ’ t An Option, Noel Yuhanna, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research, Nov 2010

With the success of the personal efforts of these Analyst ( s ) Xerox Corporation adopted the idea and developed their work by putting these procedures on Sun Microsystems hosts where the Adobe interpreter also resides.

U. S. Army Intelligence Analyst Targeted For Suggesting New Independent 9 / 11 Investigation ".

It was declared by the Legislative Analyst to have " no fiscal effect ".

Analyst Dirk Lever wrote on January 15, 2007: " We cannot understand why any Canadians would support double taxation of retirement benefits-it affects all of us eventually ".

" Composer and Analyst of the Postmodern Age ".