Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is the audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of the United States Congress.
Read More at Wikipedia ›America uses flawed methods to tally and analyze the deaths of children who have been maltreated, and the latest annual estimate of 1,770 such fatalities is likely too low, the Government Accountability Office says in a new report to Congress.
Better data, says the GAO, would aid in developing strategies that could save many children's lives in the future.The GAO report, the subject of a House Human Resources subcommittee hearing Tuesday, says state agencies and the Department of Health and Human Services should broaden the scope of data collection, improve coordination, and seek uniform definitions of abuse and maltreatment."We need to do a much better job working together at the local, state and national level," said Theresa Covington, director of the National Center for the Review and Prevention of Child Deaths, in testimony prepared for the hearing.In his opening remarks, the chairman of the House subcommittee, Rep. Geoff Davis, R-Ky., evoked the death of 2-year-old Caylee Anthony, ...Jeanette Barraza-Galindo conspicuously left her bags of teddy bears and throw pillows on a bus during an inspection at the Texas-Mexico border — and professed ignora...
We are used to hearing about fraud and government programs that fail to accomplish their goals. It now appears that yet another category might be important: duplicat...
The 'Blues' who keep the nation's Capitol safe are seeing green. The officers who patrol the metal detectors and corridors of the Capitol Hill complex are earning so...
Part 1 of Griff Jenkins' inside look at the GAO report on government waste, spending, and 'targets of opportunity'
Fox News has obtained a draft copy of a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that concludes, a decade after 9/11, gaping holes remain in databases of ov...
Columnist Michelle Malkin reacts to new GAO report on stimulus funds
A U.S. government investigator told members of Congress on Thursday that personalized DNA tests claiming to predict certain inheritable diseases are misleading and o...
The Day the Stimulus Era Died“Obviously (the cuts) would be contractionary to some extent, but our analysis doesn’t give a number that high.”-- Federal Reserve Chair...
Group petitions for a recall election
A review of cemeteries administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs has revealed problems with 123 gravesites, including eight cases in which people were burie...
Part 3 of Griff Jenkins' inside look at the GAO report on government waste and spending
New cyber regulations announced by Iran last week, including requiring Internet cafes to install surveillance cameras, could be just a precursor to the Islamic Repub...
The Department of Transportation ’s massive budget is loaded with redundancies and duplicate programs, according to a new report on federal waste.In the recently rel...
Mitt Romney returned to Salt Lake City on Saturday to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 2002 Winter Games he helped lead, but the GOP presidential candidate has ...
Mitt Romney returned to Salt Lake City on Saturday to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 2002 Winter Games he helped lead, but the GOP presidential candidate came...
To reach his office in Galveston National Laboratory, where scientists study deadly pathogens such as the Ebola and Marburg viruses, director James Le Duc swipes his...
Panel reaction on what this means for spending cuts
The federal government's multi-agency approach to help the homeless is often confused, according to a recently released report that catalogues the hundreds of differ...
House Speaker John Boehner has been handed a weapon of happy destruction. The Government Accountability Office has produced a report skewering government waste that ...
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