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              UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE

                      WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548


                                    FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                    EXPECTED AT 10:00 A.M.
                                    THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1981


                            STATEMENT OF111 il                   II

                          ELMER B. STAATS                  114339

               COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES

                            BEFORE THE

               U.S. SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                ON

                 WAYS TO REDUCE GOVERNMENT SPENDI




Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee:

     I am pleased to have the opportunity today to discuss some of

GAO's efforts over the last several years to improve the economy,

efficiency, and effectiveness of Government. GAO, pursuant to its

basic statutes, reviews the operations and activities of almost

every agency of the Government. This affords us the opportunity

to develop numerous recommendations for savings and improving the

way the Government operates.

     For the purpose of considering how to reduce expenditures, it

is useful to categorize the recommendations we have made for bud-

getary savings over the past several years as falling into one of

two categories: programmatic or administrative. Many of our re-

commendations have been accepted either by the executive branch or

the Congress. For example, over the past four years congressional

and agency action taken on GAO recommendations which could be

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