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094420 1 (1971-07-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadxkl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Expected at 10 a.m. EDT ' a July 8, 1971 UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 STATEMENT OF / ELMER B. STAATS, COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES, BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON MANPOWER AND CIVIL SERVICE COMMITTEE ON POST OFFICE AND CIVIL SERVICE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ON H.R. 9442 - ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE LEVEL POSITIONS FOR THE GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee: We are very glad to appear before you in support of H.R. 9442 which would authorize five positions in the General Accounting Office at rates not to exceed Level IV of the Executive Schedule. The General Accounting Office was established in 1921 - fifty years ago. At that time there were created the positions of Comptroller General of the United States and Assistant Comptroller General of the United States. Only these positions were authorized salaries in excess of the Civil Service rates. No change was made until 1961 when Congress authorized the compensation of the General Counsel of the General Accounting Office to be at Level IV of the Exec- utive Pay Schedule. Consequently, other than these three positions there is no authority at the present time to pay any official of the Office abve' grade GS-18. The work of the General Accounting Office has, of course, greatly ex- panded and changed since 1921. As the Federal Government has become in- creasingly engaged in new and complex programs, the Office has changed its methods of operation, the scope of its work, and the make up of its staff. We now have a highly qualified professional staff of nearly 3,000 persons r

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