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U.S. Fears $53 Billion Spent On Reconstruction In Iraq Will Go To Waste

nytimes.com | TIMOTHY WILLIAMS | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq Reconstruction, Stuart W. Bowen Jr., Marshall Plan, Iraq War, Gao, Iraq, Reconstruction, Nouri Al Maliki, Government Accountability Office, Politics News

In its largest reconstruction effort since the Marshall Plan, the United States government has spent $53 billion for relief and reconstruction in Iraq...

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CFTC Gets Derivatives Advice From Industry Insiders

HuffPost Investigative Fund | Keith Epstein And Ben Protess | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cantwell, Goldman Sachs, Lobbyists, Cftc, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, JP Morgan, Obama, Citigroup Global Markets, Federal Advisory Committee Act, White House, Euronext Liffe, Maria Cantwell, Financial Crisis, Government Accountability Office, Jill Sommers, Cme, Lobbying, Derivatives, Richard Berliand, Financial Reform, Joanne Medero, Arthur Hahn, Goldman, Barclays, Jill E. Sommers, Barack Obama, Gao, Derivatives Trading, Robert Klein, Bonnie Litt, Citigroup, Politics News

Like many federal agencies contemplating reform these days, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission is hearing a lot from the industry it regulates...

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U.S. Ports Still Wide Open to Nukes, Report Says

Jeff Stein | Posted 11.17.2009 | World

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Nuclear Detector, Nuclear Weapons, Afghanistan, Homeland Security, Customs and Border Patrol, Gao, Port Security, Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Terrorism, Border Security, Al Qaeda, World News
Jeff Stein

Over $3 billion and seven years since U.S. intelligence discovered that Osama Bin Laden was seeking a nuke, terrorists can still drive a radioactive truck through the holes in America's border defenses

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The Pentagon's Black Hole

Winslow T. Wheeler | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, DOD Inspector General, Financial Management, Waste, Defense Spending, Pentagon Budget, Gao, Defense Budget, Obama Pentagon, Politics News
Winslow T. Wheeler

It's not that DOD is flunking audits. You flunk an audit when you track the money and find it was not spent as intended. DOD cannot track the money; the Department of Defense is unauditable.

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Why Financial Literacy is a Mirage

Eric Schurenberg | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business

Read More: 401(K), Gao, Financial Literacy Education Commission, Ben Bernanke, Financial Literacy and Education Improvement Act, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Financial Literacy, Business News
Eric Schurenberg

What makes financial literacy such an attractive goal today? One benefit is that it deflects attention from reforming financial services.

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NY-23: Hoffman Tells GOP Clean Energy Bill Lie, Completely Botches it

Josh Nelson | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Superfreakonomics, Doug Hoffman, Clean Energy, Gao, Treasury, Ny-23, $1761, Cbs, Global Warming, Climate Change, Government Accountability Office, Politics News
Josh Nelson

Doug Hoffman is dangerously out of touch. Recent false statements he made on cap-and-trade tell it all.

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Shahien Nasiripour

While Law School Tuition Skyrockets, Government Student Loan Limits Remain Stagnant

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business

Read More: American Bar Association, College Tuition, Law School Tuition, Graduate School, Law School, Gao, Personal Finance, Government Accountability Office, Stafford Loans, Business News

While law school tuition has skyrocketed over the past 15 years, federal loan limits have remained stagnant, putting more pressure on students to take...

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Even After Boy's Death, States Say Children Are Not Getting Medicaid Dental Care

AP | ANN SANNER | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kids, Children, Dental Care, Health Care, Gao, Medicaid, Health Care Reform, Medicare, Deamonte Driver, Low Income, Poverty, Dentists, Public Option, Dentistry, Universal Health Care, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Two years after a 12-year-old Maryland boy died from an untreated tooth infection, low-income kids continue to face barriers to den...

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Government Pays Mortgage Servicers Billions, While Homeowners Suffer

McClatchy Newspapers | Chris Adams | Posted 10.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Treasury Department, Foreclosure Rates, Foreclosure Crisis, Banks, Bank of America, Recession, Mortgage Servicers, Lenders, Saxon Mortgage, Home Affordable Modification Program, CitiFinancial, Mortgage Modification, Unemployment, Foreclosure, HAMP, Gao, Treasury, Citi, Homeowners, Tarp, Economy, Government Accountability Office, Business News

WASHINGTON -- The federal government is engaged in a massive mortgage modification program that's on track to send billions in tax dollars to many of ...

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GAO: AIG Improving, But May Never Fully Repay Taxpayers

AP | BY JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 11.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Aig, American International Group, Bailout, Gao, Government Accountability Office, Business News

WASHINGTON — Shares of American International Group Inc. jumped more than 20 percent Monday after the head of the House Committee on Oversight a...

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Who Are the Real Small Business Advocates in America?

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Small, Congress, Small Business, Abuse, Fortune 500, Middle Class, Obama Administration, Sba, Advocate, Lloyd Chapman, Loopholes, Business, Fraud, Barack Obama, Washington, Gao, American Small Business League, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

The ASBL is the only national small business group that does not take money from Fortune 500 firms or big businesses. We only fight for small businesses.

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Bridging the Fighter Gap -- U.S. Navy Has Solution: Buy More Super Hornets!

Rob Diamond | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: F-35-Lightning-Ii, Joint-Strike-Fighter-Project, Congress, Congressional Research Service Report, Gao, F-18-Super-Hornet, Fighter Gap, Marine Corps, Navy, Politics News
Rob Diamond

With troops in combat today, our servicemen and women deserve better than a debate about unproven technologies of the future.

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Rep. Johnson Applauds American Small Business League for its Work on Small Business Contracting

Chris Gunn | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fortune 1000, Women, Small Business, Abuse, Fortune 500, h.r. 2568, Oversight, Lloyd Chapman, Loopholes, Veterans, Fraud, Hank Johnson, Fairness and Transparency in Contracting Act, Gao, American Small Business League, Minorities, Politics News
Chris Gunn

Johnson proposed the "Fairness and Transparency in Contracting Act of 2009," to provide small businesses across the country with billions of dollars in additional contracting opportunities.

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20,000 American Guns Trafficked to Mexican Criminals

Paul Helmke | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Homeland Security, Eliot Engel, Assault Weapons, Gun Trafficking, Gun Control, Mexico, Joe Biden, Guns, Illegal Guns, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, Rahm Emanuel, Janet Napolitano, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Gao, Mexico Drug Wars, Politics News
Paul Helmke

With 20,000 illegal guns from America recovered at crime scenes in Mexico over the last five years, there is no excuse for Congress and the President not to take steps now to close the gun show loophole.

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Senator Leahy's Letter to the G.A.O., the Investigative Arm of the U.S. Congress

Sunil Chacko | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Oversight, Lugar, Bayh, Senator Leahy, G.a.O., President Obama, Coburn, World Bank, Transparency, Google for Government, Accountability, Deputy General Counsel Daniel Gordon, Acting Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, Politics News
Sunil Chacko

The letter to the G.A.O., the investigative arm of the U.S. Congress, now over a year old, was sent by U.S. Senators Leahy, Bayh and Lugar following the disappearance of the Bayh Amendment.

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Planes, Guns and Terrorists

Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Terrorist Watch List, National Rifle Association, National Security, Rahm Emanuel, Terrorism, Nancy Pelosi, Gun Control, Gao, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Illegal Guns, Politics News
Dennis A. Henigan

Should suspected terrorists be blocked from buying guns before they commit a violent crime? The gun lobby apparently doesn't think so.

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90 Percent of Mexican Crime Guns Come From U.S., Says GAO

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

Read More: Border Violence, National Rifle Association, Illegal Gun Trafficking, Violence Policy Center, Mexico, U.S.-Mexico Border, Gun Trafficking, Gao, Calderon, Vpc, Mexico Violence, BORDER ISSUES, Nra, Wayne LaPierre, Government Accountability Office, World News
Josh Sugarmann

So much for NRA chief Wayne LaPierre's oft-repeated claim that Mexican gun traffickers don't bother to "trifle with paperwork at U.S. gun stores."

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GAO Report Highlights Costs of U.S. Food Aid Restrictions

Kimberly Ann Elliott | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Aid, US Food Aid, Food Aid, Gao, Government Accountability Office, World News
Kimberly Ann Elliott

Congressional restrictions on U.S. food aid raise the costs of delivering it by as much as a third and delay it reaching hungry people by up to 100 days.

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GAO: Sensitive Military Technology Can Easily Be Shipped Overseas

Huffington Post | Marcus Baram | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Military Shipments, Military Technology, Gao, Sales of Military Technology, Dual-Use Technology, Politics News

Sensitive technology, including parts that can be used in the development of nuclear weapons, guided missiles and IEDs, can be easily purchased in the...

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DOE Nuclear Clean-Up Program "High-Risk Area For Fraud, Waste, Abuse, And Mismanagement"

The Huffington Post | Cara Parks | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Doe, Gao, Nuclear Cleanup, Department of Energy, Government Accountability Office, Green News

The Department of Energy is not adequately reporting the environmental impact of its billion-dollar program to clean up nuclear waste, according to a ...

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Convoluted Foreign Aid

David Beckmann | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Aid, Gao, Foreign Assistance, Foreign Affairs, Government Accountability Office, US Foreign Aid, World News
David Beckmann

U.S. foreign assistance has worked miracles around the globe, but is in dire need of an overhaul.

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CON GAMES: Real Bonus Babies in Defense Budget

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Neocons, Neoconservatives, A.I.G., Defense Spending, Gao, Department of Defense, Government Accountability Office, Politics News
Michael Conniff

Earmarks and entitlements are chickenfeed compared to defense spending, but to conservatives the Defense Department has always been sacrosanct.

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New Report Reveals Why We'll Be Paying for the Iraq Occupation for Years to Come, Withdrawal or Not

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 04.30.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, Private Contractors, Afghanistan, President Obama, Ann Wright, Iraq Occupation, US Foreign Policy, Iraq War Funding, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Colonel Ann Wright, Iraq, Gao, Residual Force, Government Accountability Office, Iraq Bases, Afghanistan Surge, Us Afghanistan Surge, US Troops, US Military, US Military Afghanistan, Obama Afghanistan Troop Increase, Afganistan Troop Increase, Barack Obama Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Us Troops Afghanistan, US Afghanistan, Afghanistan Taliban, World News
Jeremy Scahill

With last week's announced escalation of the war in Afghanistan, Obama blew the lid off of any lingering perceptions that he represents a significant change in how the U.S. conducts its foreign policy.

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Sex, Spitzer, Derivatives: Using Our Outrage

Ari Melber | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gramm, Dorgan, Derivatives, Bank, Spitzer, Deregulation, 2008 Campaign, Bank Regulation, Glass-Steagall Act, Gao, Glass-Steagall, New York-New York, Politics News
Ari Melber

In a galling demonstration of Washington's tangled priorities, leaders in both parties still refuse to tap Eliot Spitzer's expertise for policymaking and enforcement in the current crisis.

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GAO: Forget The Bonuses, AIG Can't Repay Its Loans

McClatchy | Kevin Hall | Posted 04.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Gao, Aig Bonuses, AIG Loans, Aig, Government Accountability Office, Business News

Lost in all the shouting over the $165 million in bonuses paid to executives of disgraced insurer American International Group was this sober message...

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