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Special Publications: ["Always Do Right"]

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date May 4, 1980
Report No. 113828
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Summary:

GAO is charged by Congress with recommending ways to reduce waste and inefficiency, fraud, and mismanagement, and to improve the operations of Government. The most sweeping change to affect GAO was the Budget and Accounting Procedures Act of 1950, which was signed by President Truman. The overall purpose of the Act was to make Federal program administrators take on the responsibility for seeing that budget and accounting systems were adequate to control public monies. The role of GAO was changed by Congress, because evidence was mounting that, even though expenditures may well have been legal, agencies in the Executive branch were not administering the public monies in an efficient and economical manner. Just as Truman believed that he was accountable to the people, there was a growing recognition that all of Government must be accountable to the people.

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