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To: Neeka who wrote (413967)	3/1/2011 11:50:30 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793990

Summary This is GAO's first annual report to Congress in response to a new statutory requirement that GAO identify federal programs, agencies, offices, and initiatives, either within departments or governmentwide, which have duplicative goals or activities. Congress asked GAO to conduct this work and to report annually on our findings.

To: Neeka who wrote (413967)	3/2/2011 12:24:11 AM
From: Sdgla	6 Recommendations Respond to of 793990

Coburn set this in action : The 345-page document was prepared by the Government Accountability Office under a new federal law requiring that Congress be provided with an annual report detailing wasteful spending. "This report confirms what most Americans assume about their government," said U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., who proposed the new law. "We are spending trillions of dollars every year, and nobody knows what we are doing. The executive branch doesn't know. The congressional branch doesn't know. Nobody knows." The GAO report, which Coburn, in a prepared statement, called a "mother lode of government waste and duplication," comes as Congress debates how and where to cut spending to deal with a multitrillion-dollar federal debt. GAO officials warn that their list of problems is not complete.