Comptroller General of the United States
Comptroller General of the United States of America | |
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United States Government Accountability Office | |
Term length | 15 years |
Formation | 1921 |
Website | www |
The comptroller general of the United States is the director of the
Overview
The
The comptroller general has the responsibility to audit the financial statements that the treasury secretary and the Office of Management and Budget director present to the Congress and the president. 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."[5]
The current comptroller general is
List of U.S. comptrollers general
Image | Comptroller General | Term of service | Appointing president |
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John R. McCarl | July 1, 1921 – June 30, 1936[7] | Warren G. Harding | |
Fred H. Brown | April 11, 1939 – June 19, 1940[7] | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
Lindsay Carter Warren
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November 1, 1940 – April 30, 1954[7] | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
Joseph Campbell | December 14, 1954 – July 31, 1965[7] | Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
Elmer B. Staats | March 8, 1966 – March 3, 1981[7] | Lyndon B. Johnson | |
Charles Bowsher | 1981–1996 | Ronald Reagan | |
David M. Walker | 1998–2008 | Bill Clinton | |
Gene Dodaro | 2010–present | Barack Obama |
See also
- INTOSAI
- Supreme audit institution
References
- Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, Sec. 301
- Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, Sec. 312(a)
- ^ "Budget and Accounting Act, 1921 Public Law 67-13" (PDF). GAO Office. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-05-06.
- ^ "General Powers and Duties of the GAO (31 USC 711 to 31 USC 720) Cornell Law LII". GAO Office. Retrieved 2010-04-11.
- ^ Statement of the Comptroller General of the United States (PDF), Comptroller General of the United States, December 17, 2007
- ^ "GAO History, 1921–2008". GAO Office. Retrieved 2007-07-30.
- ^ a b c d e Staats, Elmer B. (1967). "Annual Report of the Comptroller General of the United States for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1967" (PDF). Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office: iv.
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