Former Comptroller General says the government must face up to its troubling balance sheet.
Walker, who as U.S. Comptroller General launched a quixotic antideficit crusade and now heads the antideficit foundation funded by Blackstone Group billionaire Peter G.
The art of taxation, Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-83), the comptroller general of finances, told Louis XIV before that king's spending got really out of hand, is to pluck from the goose the most feathers with the least hissing.
Comptroller General Walker has decided to publicize an incomplete "preliminary report" on the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) efforts in Hurricane Katrina without even bothering to talk to the senior leadership of DHS. The resulting report is premature and unprofessional.
The ACA also requires that, in addition to the CO-OP boards, an unpaid federal CO-OP Advisory Board, made up of 15 members, be appointed by the Comptroller General of the United States and serve until December 31, 2015.
In April Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, wrote to the comptroller-general accusing Mr Obama of passing campaign travel off as official events.
That settlement had input from staff from the attorney general's office and the comptroller's office, although Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, both Democrats, said they never knew of the issue or three drafts of the settlement that were circulated to lawyers in their offices.
Burris, 71, is one of Illinois' most accomplished politicians, having served as state comptroller and attorney general.
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India, the auditor, stood by its findings.
The figure is in a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General on the safety of health services in NI.
Following the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, the government ordered an inquiry into the process by India's top investigation body, the Central Bureau of Investigation.
Select committees, apart from the Public Accounts Committee which can draw on the Comptroller and Auditor General's staff, are also handicapped by lack of resources.
Up to 36, 000 potentially eligible pensioners have not applied for the Minimum Income Guarantee, according to the Comptroller and Auditor General John Dowdall's report to Parliament.
In a report tabled in the parliament on Tuesday, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) said it found lapses in 22% cases where loans were written off.
The Commission quotes evidence given to a House of Lords committee earlier this year by the UK's Comptroller and Auditor General, Sir John Bourn, who said there were 500 accounts representing the expenditure of British central government.
Raja was forced to resign from his post as minister on Nov. 14 after the Comptroller and Auditor General of India released a report that alleges he had rigged the sale of 2G spectrum in 2008 for prices far lower than market value.
The head of the NIAO, Comptroller and Auditor General Kieran Donnelly, said: It is vital that our education system does all it can to address underachievement in order to improve the life chances of our young people and to ensure that our economy is well equipped to compete in an increasingly global marketplace.
The state Republican Party is now searching for candidates for the three statewide offices of governor, attorney general and comptroller in 2014.
Burris, 71, also a Democrat, served Illinois from 1979 to 1992, first as state comptroller and later as attorney general.
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"Neither the office of the attorney general nor the comptroller's office, agencies with knowledge of the settlement agreement and the secret payout, raised any objection to inclusion of such a confidentiality clause, " the report stated.
Mr. Bloomberg and other elected officials have said they are deeply worried these problems could resurface when a larger number of voters head to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballots for governor, Congress, state attorney general, state comptroller and the entire state Legislature.
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In similar fashion, in early January, when the country was still reeling from disastrous floods, the assembly quietly appointed a host of the president's nominees to head supposedly independent state institutions, ranging from the Supreme Court to the Central Bank, and including the ombudsman, the attorney-general and the comptroller (national auditor).
Donovan's report also criticizes the roles of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, both Democrats.
While the relationship between unions and Mr. Cuomo has been lukewarm, most say they are working hard for comptroller candidate Tom DiNapoli and attorney general hopeful Eric Schneiderman, along with several Democratic candidates for the state Senate.
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Worse still, the court may, in effect, endorse the comptroller's ruling and the attorney-general's action.
Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray and New York Comptroller Thomas P.
But both reports also cited failures and mistakes by Silver and his top staffers in a settlement that was reviewed by staffers from the Attorney General's Office and state Comptroller's Office.
Harry Wilson, the Republican candidate for comptroller, and Dan Donovan, the Republican candidate for attorney general, were tied with their Democratic rivals in a recent poll.
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Most notably, as the result of a lengthy investigation as attorney general, Mr. Cuomo prosecuted former New York state Comptroller Alan Hevesi, who pleaded guilty to a felony corruption charge for his role in a pay-to-play pension scandal.
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney is here in the house. (Applause.) Governor David Paterson is here. (Applause.) Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. (Applause.) State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli is here. (Applause.) The Mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg. (Applause.) Dr. George Campbell, Jr.
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