The Comptroller General of the United States is the director of the Government Accountability Office (GAO, formerly known as the General Accounting Office), a legislative branch agency founded by Congress in 1921 to ensure the fiscal and managerial accountability of the federal government. The Government Accountability Office ( GAO) is the Audit, Evaluation, and investigative arm of the United States Congress. A legislature is a type of representative Deliberative assembly with the power to create amend and change Laws The law created by a legislature is called Legislation The United States Congress is the bicameral Legislature of the federal government of the United States of America, consisting of two houses Year 1921 ( MCMXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar of the Gregorian calendar
The Comptroller General is appointed for a fifteen-year term by the President of the United States with the advice and consent of the Senate. The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by The United States Senate is the Upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, the Lower house being the House of Representatives The current acting Comptroller General is Gene L. Dodaro, who became acting Comptroller General of the United States on March 12, 2008. Events 538 - Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common He was preceded by David M. Walker ('98-'08). [1] On February 15, 2008, David Walker, then Comptroller General announced that he was resigning from GAO to head the Peter G. Peterson foundation.
The Comptroller General has the responsibility to audit the financial statements that the Secretary of the Treasury and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget present to the Congress and the President. The United States Secretary of the Treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, concerned with finance and monetary matters, and until The Office of Management and Budget (OMB is a Cabinet -level office and is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP For every fiscal year since 1996, when consolidated financial statements began, the Comptroller General has refused to endorse the accuracy of the consolidated figures for the federal budget, citing "(1) serious financial management problems at the Department of Defense, (2) the federal government’s inability to adequately account for and reconcile intragovernmental activity and balances between federal agencies, and (3) the federal government’s ineffective process for preparing the consolidated financial statements. " [1]
US Comptrollers General to date
| Comptroller General | Date of Service | Appointing President |
|---|---|---|
| John R. McCarl | 1921 - 1936 | Warren G. Harding |
| Fred Brown | 1939 - 1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Lindsay C. Warren | 1940 - 1954 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Joseph Campbell | 1954 - 1965 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Elmer B. Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2 1865 August 2 1923 was the twenty-ninth President of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death from a heart attack aged Lindsay Carter Warren ( 16 December 1889 - 28 December 1976) was a Democratic U Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (October 14 1890 – March 28 1969 was President of the United States from 1953 until 1961 and a five-star general Staats | 1966 - 1981 | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Charles A. Bowsher | 1981 - 1996 | Ronald Reagan |
| David M. Walker | 1998 - 2008 | Bill Clinton |
| Gene L. David M Walker (born 1951) is the President and CEO of the Peter G William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19 1946 served as the forty-second President of the United States Dodaro [2] | Interim Comptroller General effective March 12, 2008 |
References
- ^ GAO History, 1998-2008. GAO Office. Retrieved on 2007-07-30. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1419 - First Defenestration of Prague. 1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off
- ^ U.S. GAO - Gene L. Dodaro's Biography
External links
- Government Accountability Office website
- Comptroller General Presentations
- GAO Press Release about David Walker Departure
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