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              UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
                      WASHINGTON, D.C.  20548


                                          FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                          Expected at 9:30 a.m.
                                          Tuesday, April 5, 1983


                           STATEMENT OF

                    CLIFFORD I. GOULD, DIRECTOR
            FEDERAL PERSONNEL AND COMPENSATION DIVISION

                            BEFORE THE

                  SUBCOMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES
         HOUSE COMMITTEE ON POST OFFICE AND CIVIL SERVICE

                                ON

                   REAUTHORIZATION OF THE OFFICE
                       OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS


Mr. Chairman  and Members of the Subcommittee:

     I am pleased  to be here today to discuss a 5-year extension

of authorization  for the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) as

called for  in H.R. 1650.

     The General Accounting  Office (GAO) was an advocate for the

establishment of an office of Government ethics,  long before the

Ethics Act of 1978 was passed.  We  believed in the need for such

an office because we were aware of the  significant problems

agencies were having with their financial disclosure  systems.

We had identified these problems  in a series of reviews begun

in 1974.  And, based on these reviews, we concluded that weak-

nesses in agency disclosure systems stemmed primarily from  the





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