Government Accountability Office

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent, nonpartisan agency that works for Congress (GAO 2014). The GAO falls under the legislative branch of the federal government and works extensively with the executive branch, or more specifically, the Department of the Treasury and the Office of Management and Budget. How & When it Began The GAO was founded in 1921 when the Budget and Accounting Act transferred accounting, auditing responsibilities, and claims functions away from

the government to run properly. It shares power with the executive and judicial branches. Article one of the Constitution states that congress has the power to make laws, declare war, raise and provide public money, impeach and try federal officers, approve presidential appointments, and approve treaties. In this paper, the following will be discussed. How Congress uses the Government Accountability Office to conduct audits on the budgets and appropriations. The executive branch of government role

The Government Accountability Office has pointed out that the important part of effective risk management is a challenge for Congress and the administration. Risk management is a strategic process in helping policy-makers to make decisions about assessing risk, and having limited allocating resources in taking action under conditions of uncertainty (GAO, 2008). However, with the policy-makers recognizing risk management, it helps them to make decisions, while Congress and the administration have

This research paper focuses on the importance of developing an effective Strategic Human Capital Plan (SHCP) for government agencies, (Government Accountability Office, 2009). In order for the agency’s to address deficiencies in their workforce, they must incorporate a strategic method of aligning Human Resource (HR) with organizational goals, (Government Accountability Office, 2009). My research begins with addressing my own agency and identifying key elements in developing a SHCP that identifies

the effectiveness and efficiency within the education department. This strategy of appointing public servants or a hiring freeze can have a negative effect, because the government tends to ignore the organizations ' mission and goals, as well as disrupting the agency operations and even increasing the expenses to the government. Also, the hiring freeze will soon decimate recruiting. If an organization reclassifies the action as a “Headcount Freeze” and clearly articulates the rules around the action

together to share information? There has indeed been a substantial improvement to how 22 agencies across the government provide security for all Americans. In response to the attacks on 9/11 the PATRIOT act was passed. (Congressional Digest 2004, 258) The PATRIOT act provided, in many ways like the creation of Department of Homeland Security (DHS), sweeping changes across the government. The PATRIOT act allowed law enforcement unprecedented latitude to identify, prosecute, and ultimately stop terrorists

Weapons Program: Transparency and Accountability Poor budgetary planning, misplaced priorities, huge cost overrun, misguided spending, little or zero accountability, management failure – these are the words we can use for a sixth grade annual sports day, not with the US nuclear weapons program. According to National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA), US Government is going to spend over $1 Trillion for ‘modernizing ‘the nuclear arsenal. No one in the federal Government has no clear idea where is the

because the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has recognized the promotion of health for the benefit of the community, where medical assistance is afforded to the poor or where medical research is promoted, as a charitable purpose. (U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2008)

citizen is the desire to help their fellow man. By the government funding social programs, taxpayer money is granted regardless of race, faith, or sexual preference. If a group wants to receive government funding, then complying with all laws, rules and regulations is perfunctory and their core philosophy may not be used as a basis for discrimination. By extending special assistance to faith-based organizations (FBO), the federal government is shirking their constitutional responsibility to not

In 2005, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) conducted a meta-analysis on 39 adult drug courts around the country, to assess whether drug courts were effective at reducing recidivism and substance abuse relapse among drug court participants (Franco, 2011). The study found a statistically significant recidivism reduction among drug dependent participants than comparison groups. GAO’s study also found that among the drug court participants, program graduates had lower post-program recidivism