U.S. Government Accountability Office
The U.S. Government Accountability Office, frequently called and better known by its acronym GAO, was previously named the General Accounting Office.
The current head of the GA0 is David M. Walker. According to his official biography he "became the seventh Comptroller General of the United States and began his 15-year term when he took his oath of office on November 9, 1998. As Comptroller General, Mr. Walker is the nation's chief accountability officer and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), a legislative branch agency founded in 1921. GAO's mission is to help improve the performance and assure the accountability of the federal government for the benefit of the American people. Over the years, GAO has earned a reputation for professional objective, fact-based, and nonpartisan reviews of government issues and operations. [1]
Contact
Government Accountability Office
441 G St., NW
Washington, DC 20548
By phone: (202) 512-3000 (Locator)
By email: webmaster@gao.gov
URL: http://www.gao.gov/
Related SourceWatch Articles
Articles
- Matt Crenson, GAO Chief Warns Economic Disaster Looms, Assoicated Press, October 28, 2006.
- David M. Walker, Foresight For Government. The Futurist, March-April, 2007.
- Kyle Almond, "One man's campaign against federal debt," CNN, March 29, 2007.
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