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              UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
                      WASHINGTON, D.C.  20548


                                        FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                        Expected at 9:30 a.m.
                                        Wednesday, March 16, 1983


                          STATEMENT OF

              ROSSLYN S. KLEEMAN, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
            FEDERAL PERSONNEL AND COMPENSATION DIVISION

                           BEFORE THE

  SUBCOMMITTEE ON ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
                HOUSE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

                               ON

                  REAUTHORIZATION OF THE OFFICE
                      OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS


Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee:

     I am pleased to be here today to discuss a 5-year extension

of authorization for the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) as

called for in H.R. 1650.

     The General Accounting Office (GAO) was an advocate for the

establishment of an office of Government ethics, long before the

Ethics Act of 1978 was passed.  We believed in the need for such

an office because we were aware of the significant problems

agencies were having with their financial disclosure systems.

We had identified these problems in a series of reviews begun

in 1974.  And, based on these reviews, we concluded that weak-

nesses in agency disclosure systems stemmed primarily from the





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