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FLMER B. STAATS, COMPTROLLER- ENERAJ,
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* BEFORE THE LEGISLATIVE SURCOMNMITTEF -
APPROPRIATIONS COIMITEF 7,
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ON THELPUDrE7r ESTIMATERS POP PISCAL YEAR 198 ..... '
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:
We appear here today seekinq your support for urgently
needed additional staff for the General Accounting Office to
meet a sharply increased workload which has occurred over the
past two years. As you know, the GAO received no increase in
its budget for fiscal year 1978. For fiscal year 1979, both
the House and Senate Appropriations Committees approved
a staffing level of 5,264 staff years and an increase in
funding for 60 staff years. However, as a result of action
taken by the Congress as a whole to reduce the legislative
branch appropriations by 5 percent, the GAO suffered reduction
of 164 staff years below the approved level of 5,264 staff
years. As a result, we have had to impose a freeze on new
hiring and have only 5,108 staff on rolls today.
GAO's basic statutes require that it afidit and evaluate
all programs of the executive branch. To a lesser extent, we
must audit the operations of both the legislative and judicial
branches as well. As the Federal budget has grown, our work-
load has automatically grown with it. However, more important
from a workload standpoint has been the increasing number of
new responsibilities placed upon the GAO during the last two
years.H
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