Improving Government: GAO's Views on H.R. 3400 Management Initiatives
(Testimony, 02/23/94, GAO/T-AIMD/GGD-94-97).

The Comptroller General testified on the key management aspects of H.R.
3400, the Government Reform and Savings Act of 1993.  Most of these
management proposals, which range from improving individual agency
operations to furthering broad-based governmentwide initiatives, come
from the Vice President's National Performance Review.  Their goal is a
smaller, more efficient government, one that stresses accountability and
managing for results.  GAO generally supports the thrust of the proposed
management improvement sections of the bill.  Certain provisions,
especially the requirement for audited financial statements for the
largest federal departments and agencies, are vital to meaningful
management reform and should be swiftly enacted.  In a few cases,
especially in the franchise and innovation funds area, GAO has serious
reservations about provisions in the bill and believes that alternatives
should be considered.  Finally, GAO suggests a number of refinements to
specific sections and proposes an additional provision on preparing and
auditing a much-needed consolidated picture of the federal government's
financial condition.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-AIMD/GGD-94-97
     TITLE:  Improving Government: GAO's Views on H.R. 3400 Management 
             Initiatives
      DATE:  02/23/94
   SUBJECT:  Personnel management
             Debt collection
             Collection procedures
             Financial statement audits
             Reductions in force
             Financial management
             Accountability
             Centralization
             Cost control
             Accounting procedures
IDENTIFIER:  Government Reform and Savings Act of 1993
             Medicaid Program
             Medicare Program
             Pell Grant
             
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