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GAO-15-309SP 1 (2015-03-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaagwa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO Performance Budget - FY 2016 Fiscal Year 2016 Performance Plan GAO Supports Congressional Decision- making, Saves Resources, and Helps Improve Government The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is the audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of Congress. It exists to support Congress in meeting its constitutional responsibilities and to help improve the performance and ensure accountability of the federal government for the benefit of the American people. As a legislative branch agency, GAO is exempt from many laws that apply to executive branch agencies; however, GAO generally holds itself to the requirements of many of the laws, including the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), as amended. Among other things, under GPRA, each agency must prepare an annual performance plan covering each program activity set forth in the budget of such agency. This section of GAO's fiscal year 2016 budget request constitutes its performance plan. GAO is unique in its audit and evaluation capacity to support Congress by performing original research, providing technical assistance, and conducting analyses to help Congress make informed decisions across all segments of the federal budget, resulting in tangible results and enhanced oversight. GAO's work directly contributes to improvements in a broad array of federal programs affecting Americans everywhere. Once again GAO demonstrated its core values of accountability, integrity, and reliability, in ensuring that it continues to provide high-quality, high-value, and independent support to Congress in ways that generate material benefits to the nation. Given GAO's reputation for consistently producing high quality work that is typically based on original research, it is not surprising that congressional demand for GAO products and services remains high. During this fiscal year, we received requests for work from 94 percent of the standing committees of the Congress and about 70 percent of their subcommittees. GAO continues to be one of the best investments in the federal government. For example, in fiscal year 2014, GAO's work yielded significant results across the government, including financial benefits of $54.4 billion - a return of about $100 for every dollar invested in GAO - and more than 1,288 other program and operational benefits that helped to change laws, improve services to the public, and promote sound management throughout government. On average about 80 percent of GAO's recommendations have been implemented over a four year period. Additional information on GAO's performance and accomplishments can be found in our Performance and Accountability Report Fiscal Year 2014.1 In addition, GAO issue-area experts testified 129 times before 70 separate committees or subcommittees that touched virtually all major federal agencies on a wide range of issues, such as veterans' wait times for outpatient medical appointments, oversight of U.S. assistance to Afghanistan, contract planning and oversight of HealthCare.gov, optimizing information technology investments, federal fiscal exposure from climate risks, government support for large bank holding companies, defense acquisitions, and biosafety lapses in high- containment laboratories. A list of selected testimony topics presented by GAO in fiscal year 2014 is included in Table 1. 1 http://www gao govassets/i670/666926df. GAO-i 5-309SP Fiscal Year 2016 Performance Plan GAO-1 5-309SP Fiscal Year 2016 Performance Plan

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