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094631 1 (1975-12-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadxpd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 0 qq631 FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY Expected at 10:00 a.m., EST December 8, 1975 STATEMENT OF ELMER B. STAATS COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES C S- BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ON PROPOSED AUDIT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA GOVERNMENT Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee, we welcome the opportunity to meet with you today to discuss our work involving the financial affairs of the District of Columbia and to present our views on the proposal that has been made to require an independent audit of the financial condition of the District of Columbia Government. We in GAO are very much interested in the affairs of the District of Columbia and endorse the Congress' efforts to strengthen the District's financial management operations. I will argue in my statement today that H.R. 11009, while containing commendable objectives, would only succeed in further demonstrating the already established financial management weaknesses of the District--at great cost and with little lasting curative effect. I will propose, instead, that initial emphasis be placed on improving the District's financial management system. This would be the approach of a Certified Public Accountant in his first-time audit of a firm with financial

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