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108661 1 (1979-02-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadycr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 9 T Sm~ Pl OF ELMER B. STAATS, COMPmROLLFR nPNFRAI, OF THE UNI'FP ;mATFS, BEFORE THE LEGISLATIVE SURCOMMITTEF APPROPRIATI(TS COMr<ITFF 00 UNITED SmATES SENAM'E Ac WB4 R UDOET ESTIMATES FOR. FISCAL YEAR 980ro'. Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee: We appear here today seeking 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 audit 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 aurinq the last two years. 1 103661 00~~ - - !!!

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