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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

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

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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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Government Pays Mortgage Servicers Billions, While Homeowners Suffer

McClatchy Newspapers | Chris Adams | Posted 10.04.2009 | Business

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 Report: State Department Language Skills Are Dangerously Insufficient

Foreign Policy | Josh Rogin | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gao Report, Foreign Service Officers Language Skills, Homeland Security, State Department Language Skills, State Department GAO Report, GAO Report Language Skills, Government Accountability Office, Daniel Akaka Homeland Security, State Department, GAO Report State Department Language Skills, Politics News

About a third of Foreign Service officers in jobs that require language skills don't have the proficiency required to do their jobs, hurting America's...

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GAO: AIG Improving, But May Never Fully Repay Taxpayers

AP | BY JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 09.21.2009 | 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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Bush Bureau Of Land Management Abused Legal Exceptions To Benefit Big Oil And Gas: GOA

The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 09.17.2009 | Denver

Read More: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado, Nick Rahall, Minerals Management Service, Government Accountability Office, George W. Bush, Denver News

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 rather famously - or infamously, depending on your point of view - allowed for a Safe Drinking Water Act exemption for t...

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Listen to Mr. David Walker

John David Lewis | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dr. Alan Carlin, David Walker, National Press Foundation, Government Accountability Office, Politics News

Officials must often make a choice: to remain silent and keep their jobs, or to resign and speak the truth.

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GAO: VA Failing to Serve Women Warriors

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Veterans Affairs, Patty Murray, Veterans, Women Warriors, Iraq, Afghanistan, Obama, Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, Health Care, Troops, Government Accountability Office, Paul Rieckhoff, Politics News

This week, the Government Accountability Office released a stunning new report detailing significant barriers that many female veterans face in accessing health care at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Bank Bailout Fund: $328 Billion Still Remains

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 08.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Tim Geithner, Barney Frank, Treasury Department, Judd Gregg, Bailout Funds, Bailout, Bank Bailout, Government Accountability Office, Business News

WASHINGTON — The government has tens of billions of dollars left in the eye-popping $700 billion bank bailout fund created last fall, prompting ...

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Investigators Smuggled Bomb Parts Into Ten Federal Buildings

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Scary Things, Government Accountability Office, Politics News

Sarabeth at 1115.org draws attention to this downright scary story from CNN, detailing how investigators, sent to test security protocols at all sorts...

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Federal Contractors Got Billions In Bonuses, Despite Performance: Report

washingtonpost.com | Steve Vogel | Posted 08.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Nasa, Department of Health and Human Services, Government Contractors, Office of Management and Budget, Government Accountability Office, Business News

Federal agencies have awarded billions in bonuses to contractors regardless of whether the work was deemed satisfactory, according to a Government Acc...

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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

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

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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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

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

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There is Nothing to Fear but Staying Silent

Rev. Lennox Yearwood | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Congress, Whistleblowers, Civil Rights, Government Accountability Office, Epa, Politics News

NoFear II and its tougher language is needed to grant protection to Dr. Marsha Coleman and the pitiful few left in government with the courage to blow the whistle on waste, fraud and abuse.

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SEC Disfunction: Why The Agency Is Broken

TPMMuckraker | Moe Tkacik | Posted 06.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Gao Report on Sec, Gao Sec, Disfunction Sec, Sec, Securities and Exchange Commission, Sec Disfunction, Government Accountability Office, Business News

The agency got more tips from FINRA -- the financial industry's self-regulator -- than it had the resources to pursue, it lost 11.5% of its lawyers si...

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Frank Wants Expanded Power For GAO To Investigate Fed

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Government Accountability Office, Federal Reserve, Barney Frank, Politics News

Congress is working with the Government Accountability Office to increase its power to investigate the action the Federal Reserve has taken in respons...

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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

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

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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Freddie Mac Hires Ocwen in Spite of Past Problems

ProPublica | Posted 04.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Loan Modifications, Freddie Mac, Ocwen Financial Corp., Housing Rescue, Government Accountability Office, Business News

Freddie Mac introduced a loan modification pilot program, but it outsourced the job to a subprime loan servicer with a history of customer dissatisfaction and run-ins with the federal government.

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The Mystery of the Disappearance of the Bayh Amendment

Sunil Chacko | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bayh Amendment, Lugar, Wyden-Snowe Amendment, Leahy, Senators Bayh, World Bank, Government Accountability Office, Politics News

The US Senate should pass the Bayh amendment again and ensure that it is not taken out yet again from the Appropriations bill of 2010 under discussion now.

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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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To Survive, Americans Must Assert Themselves as Economic Patriots

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 03.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Sen. Sherrod Brown, Year End Bonuses, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, $700 Billion Bailout, United States Council for International Business, Congress, Corporate Jet, Business Roundtable, “Buy America”, Infrastructure, Unemployment, Wall Street, Bernie Madoff, Stimulus Package, Government Accountability Office, Economy, Business News

To survive this economic catastrophe, Americans must stand up to the likes of the Chamber and the Roundtable and call them out for being economic traitors to the United States of America.

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Bush's Midnight Regulations Value Profits More Than People

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 01.29.2009 | Business

Read More: U.S. Labor Department, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Public Citizen, Greenhouse Gas, George W. Bush, Regulation, National Marine Fisheries Service, Beryllium, Afl-Cio, Barack Obama, Clean Air Act, Midnight Regulations, Charlie Gibson, Silica, Gao, Endangered Species, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, ABC News, President Bush, Government Accountability Office, Worker Exposure to Toxic Materials, Labor Regulations, Worker Safety, Osha, Labor Rights, Workers' Rights, Truck Driving Regulations, Business News

The legacy of George W. Bush's final days in office will be degradation of the environment, endangered species and the safety of working people.

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