GAO Oversight and the National Academy of Public Administration Study: Hearing Before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, March 30, 1995U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998 - 267 lappuses |
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... internal re- views to assure that it is living by the recommendations it makes to others . As we in the Congress raise the tough questions to Executive Branch agencies , we need to raise the same tough questions of our Legislative ...
... internal re- views to assure that it is living by the recommendations it makes to others . As we in the Congress raise the tough questions to Executive Branch agencies , we need to raise the same tough questions of our Legislative ...
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... internal groups looking at its processes , we felt it was good to have an outside group come in and really look at the way things were going . There was an original proposal for $ 2 million for this project . We talked to the National ...
... internal groups looking at its processes , we felt it was good to have an outside group come in and really look at the way things were going . There was an original proposal for $ 2 million for this project . We talked to the National ...
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... internal improvements in the way GAO operates and in the review process that their work has to go through . But let's look at what GAO has produced in savings . In the long term , GAO has already saved more in the 1990's than dur- ing ...
... internal improvements in the way GAO operates and in the review process that their work has to go through . But let's look at what GAO has produced in savings . In the long term , GAO has already saved more in the 1990's than dur- ing ...
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... internal procedures . I don't want anyone to think that I am overboard on GAO . But some of the re- ports GAO produces may not have an obvious money value associ- ated with them . Some of them involve other things . How about GAO's look ...
... internal procedures . I don't want anyone to think that I am overboard on GAO . But some of the re- ports GAO produces may not have an obvious money value associ- ated with them . Some of them involve other things . How about GAO's look ...
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... internal improvements and how we might handle things in making GAO a paragon of efficiency . And there can be improve- ments at GAO , and the Comptroller is taking action to do some of the things NAPA recommended . I don't know whether ...
... internal improvements and how we might handle things in making GAO a paragon of efficiency . And there can be improve- ments at GAO , and the Comptroller is taking action to do some of the things NAPA recommended . I don't know whether ...
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