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Recently Issued Products

  • Latest Reports & Testimonies
  • Latest Legal Decisions & Opinions
  • Latest Comptroller General Presentations

Recently released reports and testimonies are listed below. Our congressional requesters may hold reports up to 30 days before making them publicly available, so some may have earlier issue dates.

Reports & Testimonies

January 08, 2009

Financial Regulation: A Framework for Crafting and Assessing Proposals to Modernize the Outdated U.S. Financial Regulatory System
GAO-09-216,  January 08, 2009

January 07, 2009

Information Technology: Demand for the Social Security Administration's Electronic Data Exchanges Is Growing and Presents Future Challenges
GAO-09-126,  December 04, 2008
National Marine Fisheries Service: Improvements Are Needed in the Federal Process Used to Protect Marine Mammals from Commercial Fishing
GAO-09-78,  December 08, 2008

January 05, 2009

Immigration Benefits: Actions Needed to Address Vulnerabilities in Process for Granting Permanent Residency
GAO-09-55,  December 05, 2008

December 24, 2008

Homeland Security Grant Program Risk-Based Distribution Methods: Presentation to Congressional Committees - November 14, 2008 and December 15, 2008
GAO-09-168R,  December 23, 2008

December 22, 2008

Defense Logistics: Improved Analysis and Cost Data Needed to Evaluate the Cost-effectiveness of Performance Based Logistics
GAO-09-41,  December 19, 2008
DOD Personnel Clearances: Preliminary Observations about Timeliness and Quality
GAO-09-261R,  December 19, 2008

December 19, 2008

United Nations Peacekeeping: Challenges Obtaining Needed Resources Could Limit Further Large Deployments and Should Be Addressed in U.S. Reports to Congress
GAO-09-142,  December 18, 2008
Ryan White Care Act: First-Year Experiences under the Part D Administrative Expense Cap
GAO-09-140,  December 19, 2008

December 18, 2008

Disaster Recovery: FEMA's Public Assistance Grant Program Experienced Challenges with Gulf Coast Rebuilding
GAO-09-129,  December 18, 2008
The Comptroller General, the head of the Government Accountability Office (GAO), issues decisions in various areas of federal law. These decisions are prepared by GAO's Office of General Counsel, and are identified by a numbering system beginning with B-(number); each decision carries its own B-number and date.

Latest Legal Decisions & Opinions

January 07, 2009

Master Lock Company, LLC
B-309982.2,  June 24, 2008
Master Lock Company, LLC
B-309982.3,  December 10, 2008
New Breed, Inc.
B-400554, B-400554.2, B-400554.3,  December 05, 2008

January 05, 2009

Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration: New Entrant Safety Assurance Process
GAO-09-287R,  January 05, 2009
Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: Medicaid Program; Fiscal Year Disproportionate Share Hospital Allotments and Disproportionate Share Hospital Institutions for Mental Disease Limits
GAO-09-290R,  January 05, 2009

December 30, 2008

Datamaxx Group, Inc.
B-400582,  December 18, 2008
GAO Bid Protest Annual Report to the Congress for Fiscal Year 2008
GAO-09-251R,  December 22, 2008

December 23, 2008

Pond Security Group Italia, JV
B-400149.3,  December 22, 2008
Information Ventures Inc.
B-400604,  December 22, 2008
Sauer, Incorporated
B-400709,  December 22, 2008
Presentations and Testimonies from Acting Comptroller General Gene L. Dodaro
 

Latest Comptroller General Presentations

December 10, 2008

Troubled Asset Relief Program: Additional Actions Needed to Better Ensure Integrity, Accountability, and Transparency
GAO-09-266T,  December 10, 2008

December 5, 2008

Auto Industry: A Framework for Considering Federal Financial Assistance, before the House Committee on Financial Services
GAO-09-247T,  December 5, 2008

December 4, 2008

Auto Industry: A Framework for Considering Federal Financial Assistance, before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
GAO-09-242T,  December 4, 2008

December 1, 2008

Ensuring a Continuing Focus on Implementing Effective Human Capital Strategies, Human Capital Management: Federal 2008 conference
GAO-09-234CG, November 21, 2008

November 13, 2008

Highlights of a Forum: Ensuring Opportunities for Disadvantaged Children and Families
GAO-09-18SP, November 13, 2008

November 3, 2008

Transforming DOD Business Operations, Defense Finance 2008 Conference
GAO-09-160CG, October 27, 2008
The Upcoming Transition: GAO's Efforts to Assist the 111th Congress and the Next Administration, Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service, City College of New York
GAO-09-159CG, October 23, 2008
Upcoming Transition Includes Key Information Technology Challenges, INPUT Fed Focus 2009 Conference
GAO-09-158CG, October 21, 2008

September 24, 2008

The Upcoming Transition: GAO's Efforts to Assist the 111th Congress and the Next Administration, before the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
GAO-08-1174T  September 24, 2008

September 19, 2008

The Role of the U.S. Government Accountability Office, House Democracy Assistance Commission, Members of Parliament from Afghanistan, Liberia & Timor-Leste
Washington, D.C.
GAO-08-1171CG, September 18, 2008

September 11, 2008

The Upcoming Transition: GAO's Efforts to Assist the 111th Congress and the Next Administration, before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Work Force, and the District of Columbia, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
GAO-08-1153T, September 10, 2008

August 7, 2008

The Role of the U.S. Government Accountability Office, House Democracy Assistance Commission, Members of Parliament from Indonesia, Kenya, Macedonia & Ukraine
Washington, DC
GAO-08-1089CG, July 31, 2008

July 31, 2008

Highlights of a Forum Convened by the Comptroller General of the United States: Enhancing U.S. Partnerships in Countering Transnational Terrorism
GAO-08-887SP, July 31, 2008

July 23, 2008

Securing, Stabilizing, and Rebuilding Iraq: Progress Report: Some Gains Made, Updated Strategy Needed, before the House Committee on Armed Services
GAO-08-1021T  July 23, 2008

July 11, 2008

Preparing the Accountability Profession for 21st Century Challenges, Institute of Internal Auditors’ 2008 International Conference
San Francisco, CA
GAO-08-1017CG, July 8, 2008

June 30, 2008

Highlights of the Joint Forum on Tax Compliance: Options for Improvement and Their Budgetary Potential
GAO-08-703SP, June 30, 2008

June 26, 2008

Fiscal Year 2007 U.S. Government Financial Statements: Sustained Improvement in Financial Management Is Crucial to Improving Accountability and Addressing the Long-Term Fiscal Challenge, before the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
GAO-08-926T  June 26, 2008