Government Accountability Office Act of 2007

On Thursday, March 13, 2008, at 2:00 p.m. in Room 2154 of the Rayburn House Office Building, the Subcommittee on Federal workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia will hold a hearing.

The hearing will examine H.R. 3268, the “Government Accountability Office (GAO) Act of 2007,” and various other legislative proposals that may be introduced before the hearing that address certain GAO reforms. It will also examine the results of the survey I requested last May, that the Employee Advisory Council conduct of all GAO employees on the Band II restructuring and the Watson Wyatt compensation study and the Ivy Group study.

The following witnesses are slated to testify:

Panel I

▪ The Honorable Gene Dodaro, Acting comptroller General,U. S. Government Accountability Office

Accompanied by

▪ Mr. Gary Keplinger, General Counsel, U. S. Government Accountability Office

Panel II

▪ Mr. Paul Coran, Chairman, Personnel Appeals Board, U.S. Government Accountability Office

▪ Ms. Anne Wagner, General Counsel, Personnel Appeals Board, U.S. Government Accountability Office

Panel III

▪ Dr. Curtis Copeland, Specialist in American National Government, Congressional Research Service

▪ Ms. Shirley Jones, Esq., Employee Advisory Counsel, U.S. Government Accountability Office

▪ Ms. Janet C. Smith, President, Ivy Planning Group, LLC

▪ Ms. Jacqueline Harpp, Interim Council Representative, International Federation of Professional & Technical Engineers, AFL-CIO