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094428 1 (1971-04-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacuja0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 094428 ADDRESS BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES ELMER B. STAATS BEFORE THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION APRIL 21, 1971 INEW PROBLEMS OF ACCOUNTABILITY FOR FEDERAL PROGRAMS If I were to ask you as public administrators and political scientists what principally comes to mind when one refers to accountability, I suspect that most of you would reply in terms of accountability as it relates to our constitutional separation of powers--principally between the executive and the legislative branches. Article II of the Constitution provides that the President shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed * * *. It further provides that he shall from time to time give to the Congress infor- mation on the state of the Union. In other words, he is accountable to the Congress for carrying out legislation enacted by it. This aspect of accountability is certainly a timely one. The temptation is great to develop it at length. We hear much these days about executive privilege, questions as to the President's authority to commit our armed forces to combat, criticism of the President for impounding funds appropriated by the Congress, charges of a credibility gap in information made available to Congress, and so on. Concurrently, we hear more and more frequently that Congress has lost its coordinate position with the executive branch, that Government has become too large and too complex for adequate legislative oversight, and that the President--thanks to TV--overshadows any similar figure or group

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