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                  REMARKS BY ELMER B. STAATS
           COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES

                 TO THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY   J,
                   MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION
                        HOUSTON, TEXAS

                        NOVEMBER 10, 1978

            [THE WORK OF THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL
            AND  HIS ASSISTANCE TO THE CONGRESSJ

     I am honored to have been invited to address your annual

meeting here in Houston on how the work of the United States

General Accounting Office, which I head, contributes to greater

economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of Federal programs.

     GAO was established by the Budget and Accounting Act of

1921.  Since that time GAO has changed from a financial audit

agency--doing practically all of its audit work at the GAO

headquarters building in Washington, examining vouchers shipped

in and keeping various appropriation accounts--to a principal

source of information and advice to the Congress.

     The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 insulates the

Comptroller General against outside pressure or influence with

a nonrenewable 15-year appointment by the President and con-

firmation by the Senate.  Once in office, the Comptroller

General can be removed only by the Congress, for cause, and

this has never happened.  These, and other provisions of the

law, go far to guarantee a Comptroller General's independence

in office, and likewise GAO's.


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