GAO at a Glance
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Current for fiscal year 2008: |
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| Address: |
GAO Headquarters 441 G St., NW Washington, D.C. 20548 |
| Offices in the following cities: | Atlanta, GA; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX: Dayton, OH; Denver, CO; Huntsville, AL; Los Angeles, CA; Norfolk, VA; San Francisco, CA; and Seattle, WA. |
| Year GAO was founded: | 1921 |
| Telephone no.: | (202) 512-3000 (employee locator) |
| Agency head: |
Gene L. Dodaro Acting Comptroller General of the United States |
| Staffing level: | 3,150 employees |
| Budget : | $507.2 million |
| Congressional testimony: | 304 |
| Measurable financial benefits from GAO work: | $58.1 billion--a $114 return on every dollar invested in GAO |
| Recommendations to improve government operations: | 1,782 (At the end of fiscal 2008, 83 percent of the recommendations GAO made five years earlier had been implemented.) |