Budget Issues: Effective Oversight and Budget Discipline Are Essential--Even in a Time of Surplus

Abstract

In my testimony today, I will talk about selected performance challenges within federal agencies and programs and about possible changes to congressional oversight models to help address such problems. In this testimony, I draw on the breadth of our work at GAO and provide examples based on the key findings and issues developed in our audits and evaluations. These examples are organized within the following five thematic questions on which you asked us to focus. What federal services could be better provided by the private sector? What federal subsidies to individuals, business, or states and local governments are no longer needed or are poorly targeted? What overlapping or fragmented programs could be consolidated or better coordinated? What federal facilities or locations are outmoded, ineffective, or excess to requirement? In what areas could major federal capital investments be more cost- effective?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA373296

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People

  • David M. Walker

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

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  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
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  • Commerce
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of State
  • Department Of Veterans Affairs
  • Economic Development
  • Federal Budgets
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Government Procurement
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Information Systems
  • Law
  • Medical Personnel
  • Money
  • Organizational Structure
  • United States
  • United States Government

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  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting
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