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• Magical September -- maybe not so magical?

  Published: September 4, 2007, 7:46 pm

  Tags: Iraq War, Government Accountability Office

  Seriously, try not to act too shocked. Republican leaders on Tuesday suggested the GOP may be willing to support keeping troops in the region through spring. Despite the GAO report detailing the abject failure of the Republican's Iraq strategy, did anyone really think September was going to bring more than the same bullshit? The White House

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• Reid response to GAO report

  Published: September 4, 2007, 5:55 pm

  Tags: Harry Reid, Iraq War, Government Accountability Office

  of our troops, the Iraqi government remains both unable and unwilling to make the compromises necessary to stabilize their country and quell the violence.  With 15 of 18 benchmarks for progress unmet, it is long past time for a new strategy. "Meanwhile, Bin Laden and Al Qaeda have regained their pre-9/11 strength, and we do not have

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• Political Appointees 'Burrowing In'

  Published: October 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Political, Appointees, Burrowing, Paul C Light, Carol Bonosaro, Henry Waxman, Tommy G Thompson, New York University, U S Government Accountability Office, U S House Committee On Oversight Government Reform, U S Office Of Personnel Management, U S Small Business A

  It is the season for that quadrennial Washington tradition known as "burrowing in."

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• Political Appointees 'Burrowing In'

  Published: October 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Political, Appointees, Burrowing, Paul C Light, Carol Bonosaro, Henry Waxman, Tommy G Thompson, New York University, U S Government Accountability Office, U S House Committee On Oversight Government Reform, U S Office Of Personnel Management, U S Small Business A

  It is the season for that quadrennial Washington tradition known as "burrowing in."

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• Backlog, Quotas Overwhelm Patent Examiners

  Published: October 8, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Backlog, Quotas, Overwhelm, Patent, Examiners, Jon W Dudas, Tom Davis, U S Patent Trademark Office, Alexandria, Stephen Barr, U S Government Accountability Office, United States, Washington Dc

  Here's how bad it is at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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• Backlog, Quotas Overwhelm Patent Examiners

  Published: October 8, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Backlog, Quotas, Overwhelm, Patent, Examiners, Jon W Dudas, Tom Davis, U S Patent Trademark Office, Alexandria, Stephen Barr, U S Government Accountability Office, United States, Washington Dc

  Here's how bad it is at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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• $38 Million Computerized Accounting System Proving Useless in Iraq

  Published: October 25, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Million, Computerized, Accounting, System, Proving, Useless, Iraq, Stuart W Bowen Jr, United States, Syria, Baghdad Green Zone, Trade Joseph Christoff, U S Embassy In Baghdad, U S Government Accountability Office, United Nations

  A $38 million U.S. effort to create a computerized accounting system for the Iraqi government has been suspended because the Ministry of Finance there has continued to use a paper system, according to the latest report of Stuart W. Bowen Jr., the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction.

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• Attacks in Iraq Continue to Decline

  Published: October 31, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Attacks, Iraq, Continue, Decline, United States, U S Armed Forces, The Pentagon, Baghdad, Joseph A Christoff, Samarra, Defense Intelligence Agency, U S Department Of State, U S Government Accountability Office, U S House Committee On Appropriations

  Attacks by insurgents and other fighters in Iraq against U.S. troops, Iraqi forces and civilians dropped sharply in September to their lowest level since early 2006, continuing a decline in violence since June, according to a new Government Accountability Office report released yesterday.

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• FDA's Foreign Inspection Budget Lean

  Published: November 1, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Fda S, Foreign, Inspection, Budget, Lean, Food And Drug Administration, United States, China, India, Andrew Von Eschenbach, John Dingell, U S Government Accountability Office, U S House Committee On Energy And Commerce

  Although the volume of prescription drugs and drug ingredients coming into the country from foreign manufacturers in developing nations such as India and China has exploded in recent years, the Food and Drug Administration's budget for foreign inspections has not kept pace and will be lower in 20...

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• Capitol to Buy Offsets in Bid to Go Green

  Published: November 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Capitol, Buy, Offsets, Bid, Green, Daniel Beard, Vernon Ehlers, Chicago, Darrell Issa, Kyle Anderson, Nancy Pelosi, Robert A Brady, Salley Collins, Washington Dc, Field Museum Of Natural History, Tufts University, U S Government Accountability Office, U S House C

  Daniel Beard, the House's chief administrative officer, will cut a taxpayer-funded check today for $89,000 to buy credits that will offset the impact of 30,000 tons of carbon belched into the atmosphere by the U.S. Capitol's antiquated, coal-burning power plant every year.

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• Capitol to Buy Offsets in Bid to Go Green

  Published: November 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Capitol, Buy, Offsets, Bid, Green, Daniel Beard, Vernon Ehlers, Chicago, Darrell Issa, Kyle Anderson, Nancy Pelosi, Robert A Brady, Salley Collins, Washington Dc, Field Museum Of Natural History, Tufts University, U S Government Accountability Office, U S House C

  Daniel Beard, the House's chief administrative officer, will cut a taxpayer-funded check today for $89,000 to buy credits that will offset the impact of 30,000 tons of carbon belched into the atmosphere by the U.S. Capitol's antiquated, coal-burning power plant every year.

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• Clearing the Roadblocks to Telecommuting

  Published: November 6, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Clearing, The, Roadblocks, Telecommuting, The Washington Post Company, Danny Davis, Frank Wolf, Henry Waxman, John Sarbanes, Federal Managers Association, U S General Services Administration, U S Government Accountability Office, U S House Committee On Oversight A

  Concerned that too few federal employees are getting plugged into telecommuting, House Democrats are drafting legislation that would encourage agencies to allow eligible employees to telework four days a month, on average.

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• Clearing the Roadblocks to Telecommuting

  Published: November 6, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Clearing, The, Roadblocks, Telecommuting, The Washington Post Company, Danny Davis, Frank Wolf, Henry Waxman, John Sarbanes, Federal Managers Association, U S General Services Administration, U S Government Accountability Office, U S House Committee On Oversight A

  Concerned that too few federal employees are getting plugged into telecommuting, House Democrats are drafting legislation that would encourage agencies to allow eligible employees to telework four days a month, on average.

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• Thousands of Medicaid Providers Fail to Pay Taxes, GAO Finds

  Published: November 14, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Thousands, Medicaid, Providers, Fail, Pay, Taxes, Gao, Finds, Internal Revenue Service, Carl Levin, Frederick W Schindler, Norm Coleman, Minnesota, Jeff Nelligan, Centers For Medicare Amp Medicaid Services, U S Government Accountability Office

  Health-care providers who fail to pay their federal taxes continue to receive millions of dollars of payments from Medicaid, the government health-care program for the poor, according to a report by congressional investigators.

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• Thousands of Medicaid Providers Fail to Pay Taxes, GAO Finds

  Published: November 14, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Thousands, Medicaid, Providers, Fail, Pay, Taxes, Gao, Finds, Internal Revenue Service, Carl Levin, Frederick W Schindler, Norm Coleman, Minnesota, Jeff Nelligan, Centers For Medicare Amp Medicaid Services, U S Government Accountability Office

  Health-care providers who fail to pay their federal taxes continue to receive millions of dollars of payments from Medicaid, the government health-care program for the poor, according to a report by congressional investigators.

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