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End the Delays Deadly to Workers

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Memorial Day, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Chronic Beryllium Disease, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Usw, Beryllium, United Steelworkers, Asbestos, Osha, Silica, Emergency Temporary Standards, Materion Brush, Workers Memorial Day, Gao, Republic Special Metals, Government Accountability Office, Job Safety, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

Saturday is Workers' Memorial Day, a time devoted to commemorating those killed on the job. No one volunteers to sacrifice their life for corporate profit, yet every day in workplaces across this country, the lives of 12 workers are taken, not given.

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Malian Rebels Declare Cease-Fire After Push

AP | RUKMINI CALLIMACHI | Posted 04.06.2012

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BAMAKO, Mali — The rebel group that recently seized control of Mali's remote north in a maneuver that effectively partitioned the country in two...

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Dem Congressman To TSA: 'We're Not Cattle'

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Gerald Connolly, Tom Petri, Video, Tsa, Congress, Darrell Issa, Stephen Lord, Transportation Security Administration, Gao, Transportation, Government Accountability Office, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- House members of both parties on Monday teed off against the agency in charge of airport and port anti-terrorist screening, saying it us...

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Outrage Over Payments for Medical Devices

Andrew Lerner | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Max Baucus, Medical Price Transparency, Gao, Medicare Costs, Health Care Price Transparency, Implantable Medical Devices, Denver News
Andrew Lerner

That a hospital would be willing to pay nearly $9,000 more for a product than another is unbelievable. Seriously: you shouldn't believe it. No hospital would willingly do this, if they knew what the going rate for these devices was.

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Mortgage Giants Agree to Pay Servicemembers for Illegal Foreclosures, Rate Hikes

Chris Birk | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Ally Financial, Bank of America, Thomas E. Perez, Gao, Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, Citigroup, Military Homeowner, Military Home Foreclosures, Business News
Chris Birk

Military homeowners who were illegally foreclosed upon during the last five years will receive a minimum payment of nearly $117,000 plus lost equity and interest.

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$3.7 Trillion Municipal Securities Market's Last U.S. Inspection 'Predated The Financial Crisis,' GAO Says

Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Thewatchdog, Watchdog Column, Municipal Bonds, SEC Oversight, AirTran Whistleblower, Financial Crisis, Regulation, Credit Rating Agencies, Watchdog Blog, Regulatory Watchdog, Gao, Municipal Securities, Business News

Government oversight of the $3.7 trillion market for municipal securities, wracked by several high-profile cases of fraud and bid-rigging, is inadequa...

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Federal Government Needs to Send a Clearer Message -- and a Strong One

Dan Kildee | Posted 03.03.2012

Read More: Fannie Mae, Obama Administration, US Government, Hamp, Freddie Mac, Gao, Fhfa, Chicago, Politics News
Dan Kildee

The bottom line is that communities are faced with growing costs from abandonment when they can least afford it and they are struggling to find creative ways to address the needs of government for revenue and communities for relief.

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GAO: Improvements Under Way At Arlington Cemetery

AP | By MATTHEW BARAKAT | Posted 12.16.2011

Read More: Virginia, Arlington National Cemetery, Video, Department of Veterans Affairs, Arlington Cemetery, Gao, U.S. Army, Veterans Affairs Department, Government Accountability Office, DC News

McLEAN, Va. -- Management of Arlington National Cemetery has improved significantly in the last year since the cemetery's top two officials were force...

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A $200K Mortgage for $2 a Month

Alan Grayson | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Gao, Congress, Alan Grayson, Fed, Leonard Cohen, Business News
Alan Grayson

Maybe you thought, "a $200,000 mortgage? For only $2 each month? That sounds impossible." Well, it is possible. It's just not possible for you. For Bank of America, yes. For Citigroup, yes. For Wells Fargo, yes. For you, no.

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Jason Cherkis

Occupy Activsts Help Families From Evictions As Part Of National Occupy Our Homes Action

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Occupy Chicago, Foreclosure Crisis, Video, East New York, Bailouts, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy NOLA, Evictions, Banks, Occupy Our Homes, Nevada, Occupy Atlanta, Gao, New York, Oregon, Business News

WASHINGTON -- In the late evening on Tuesday, Brigitte Walker welcomed Occupy Atlanta onto her property in an effort to save her Riverdale, Ga., home ...

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Vacant Homes Impose Big Costs On Cities: GAO Report

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Vacant Homes, Housing Prices, Housing Market, Foreclosure Crisis, Vacant Houses, Occupy Wall Street, Detroit, Occupy Our Homes, Foreclosure, Homeowners, Gao, Vacant Properties, Government Accountability Office, Housing Bubble, Video, Business News

The foreclosure crisis is costing cities at a time when they can least afford it. Millions of homes in America are standing vacant, and in many ca...

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McCain Says Report Vindicates Claim On Border Fires

AP | Felicia Fonseca | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: John McCain, Mccain, John Barrasso, John Mccain Arizona Wildfires, Arizona, Mccain Arizona Wildfires, John Kyl, Lisa Murkowski, John McCain Arizona, Video, Forest Fires, Arizona Wildfires Report, Arizona Wildfires, Arizona Fires, Gao, US Forest Service, Government Accountability Office, Politics News

By FELICIA FONSECA, ASSOCIATED PRESS FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- A study by Congress' investigative arm shows investigators have linked 30 fires that erupt...

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Michael McAuliff

Report: Congress Guts Its Own Government Waste Watchdog

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 11.16.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Congress must have something against good advice that saves the government tens of billions of dollars every year, Sen. Tom Coburn sugge...

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Should The FBI Headquarters Be Demolished?

The Huffington Post | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: DC News, Federal Bureau of Investigation, General Services Administration, Video, Gsa, J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Headquarters, Architecture, Fbi, Gao, J. Edgar Hoover Building, Government Accountability Office, DC News

WASHINGTON -- For years, the FBI headquarters building on Pennsylvania Avenue NW, about halfway between the White House and U.S. Capital, has been des...

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Andrea Stone

John Mica Attacks TSA 'Chat-Downs' As 'Idiotic'

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Airport Screening, Video, Israel Security, Aviation Safety, Tsa, Boston Logan, Tsa Pat Downs, John Mica, Ben Gurion Airport, Aviation, TSA Security, Transportation Security Administration, Gao, Transportation, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the House committee that oversees the Transportation Security Administration blasted the agency's recent test of "chat-d...

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Alexander Eichler

Fed Links With Finance Industry Raise Conflict Of Interest Questions

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Bank Regulation, Watchdog, Federal Reserve, Consumers, Congress, Video, Gao, Dodd-Frank Financial Overhaul, Government Accountability Office, Business News

When the Federal Reserve was handing out emergency loans during the financial crisis, some of the money didn't have to travel very far. More than a...

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Dave Jamieson

Postal Service Finances As Bad As They Sound: Auditors

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.13.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Federal auditors released a report Thursday that found, contrary to other findings, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has not been overpayi...

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Where's Your $50,000?

Alan Grayson | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Gao, Banks, Government Accountability Office, Tarp, Wall Street Bailout, Bank Bailout, Bailout, Politics News
Alan Grayson

The Government Accountability Office says that our government has handed out $16 trillion to the banks. All of that money went from you and me to the banks. And we got nothing. Not even a toaster.

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Michael McAuliff

Coburn: Senate's GAO Cuts Will Cost $3.3 Billion

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 11.28.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Tom Coburn and several colleagues are taking their fellow senators to task for slashing the Government Accountability Office's budg...

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Dan Froomkin

Pentagon Can't Follow Its Own Money, Report Finds

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 11.23.2011

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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has been predicting doom should his department be forced to make considerable budget cuts, but a GAO report released Fr...

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Michael McAuliff

Save Uncle Sam $50 Billion Last Year, Get Your Budget Cut This Year

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Deficit, Ben Nelson, Senate Appropriations Committee, Budget Cuts, Ben Nelson Budget Cuts, GAO Budget Cuts, 112th Congress, Gao Cuts, Gao, Ben Nelson GAO, Sen. Ben Nelson, Government Accountability Office, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Government Accountability Office saved Uncle Sam about $50 billion last year, yet Congress is now gearing up to slash the agency's b...

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Lynne Peeples

Superbugs Are Still Winning: Second Cargill Recall Underscores Concern, GAO Report Suggests Feds Aren't Doing Enough

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Organic Farming, Livestock, Mrsa, Superbugs, Factory Farms, Antibiotics, The Infection Loop, Salmonella, Gao, Gao Report Antibiotic Resistance, Green News

Just days after Cargill announced its second major recall in the last two months of ground turkey linked to antibiotic-resistant salmonella, a new re...

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Trying to Keep a Straight Face in the Midst of Madness: The Debt Ceiling Kabal & Balance

Mitchell J. Rabin | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Games, Social Security, Debt Ceiling, Money, Afghanistan, Ron Paul, George W. Bush, President Obama, Standard & Poor's, Billionaires, Democrats, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Fiscal Policy, Government, Iraq War, Dennis Kucinich, $1 Trillion, Military, National Security, Corporations, Friendly Fire, Richard Wolffe, People, Medicare, Gao, Technology, Iraq, Healthcare, Republicans, Moody's, Politics News
Mitchell J. Rabin

Dear President Obama and the rest of the shrewd cast of characters: if you want to balance the budget, stop the wars, close military bases, stop corporate subsidies, vastly reduce the military budget from .50 of every dollar to a fraction of that and declare a moratorium on foreclosures.

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Gerry Smith

Most Federal Agencies Have No Security Policy for Social Media

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 09.27.2011

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Less than one third of federal agencies using social media have created safeguards against hackers looking to exploit their accounts to launch cyber a...

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Military Satellite Riddled With Delays, Defects, Extra Costs

AP | By DAN ELLIOTT | Posted 09.21.2011

Read More: Lockheed Martin, Denver News, Air Force Space Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Military Satellite, Denver Colorado, Gao, Government Accounting Office, Air Force, Advanced Extremely High Frequency Satellite, Denver News

DENVER -- A small piece of cloth stuck in a fuel line may be the reason a military communications satellite hasn't reached its planned orbit since it ...

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