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GAO-12-463SP 1 (2012-03-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacfxb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Government Accountability Office-Fiscal Year 2013 Performance Plan Fiscal Year 2013 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 the Congress, and exists to support the 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. GAO is unique in our audit and evaluation capacity to support the Congress by performing original research, providing technical assistance, and conducting analyses to help the 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. Even during the constrained budgetary environment we have seen these past couple of years, GAO has continued to prove itself to be one of the best investments in the federal government. For example, in fiscal year 2011 our work yielded significant results across the government, including financial benefits of $45.7 billion-a return of $81 for every dollar invested in GAO-and over 1,300 other benefits that helped to change laws, improve services to the public, and promote sound management throughout government. In fiscal year 2011, about 80 percent of our recommendations had been adopted by the Congress and federal agencies within the last 4 years. In addition, GAO issue-area experts testified 174 times before the Congress on a wide range of issues, such as military and veterans disability systems, U.S. Postal Service fiscal sustainability, and Medicare and Medicaid fraud, waste, and abuse. A list of selected testimony topics presented by GAO in fiscal year 2011 is included in figure 1 (page F-3). Once again GAO demonstrated its core values in ensuring that we continue to provide high-quality, high-value, and independent support to the Congress in ways that generate material benefits to the nation. As a legislative branch agency, we are exempt from many laws that apply to executive branch agencies. However, we generally hold ourselves to the spirit of many of the laws, including the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), as amended. Among other things, GPRA requires each agency to prepare an annual performance plan covering each program activity set forth in the budget of such agency. This section of our budget submission constitutes our performance plan for fiscal year 2013. GAO Services Integral to Congressional Priorities Our continued high performance is evidence of the critical role GAO plays in helping the Congress and the American people better understand important national issues, both as they emerge and over the long term. GAO issues hundreds of products annually in response to congressional requests and mandates, including issuing several products under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act on mortgages, securities markets, financial institutions, the Federal Reserve, and consumer protection and many other products related to health insurance reform. We also issued our biennial high-risk report calling attention to opportunities for cost savings and improvements in federal agency and program management that offer the potential to save billions of dollars, dramatically improve service to the public, and strengthen confidence and trust in the GAO-12-463SP 1

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