Fiscal Year 1996 Budget Estimates for the General Accounting Office
(Testimony, 02/23/95, GAO/T-OCG-95-3).

GAO is committed to being a model government agency of the future--one
that is smaller and at the same time achieves efficiencies through
effective use of technology and quality management principles.  GAO
began downsizing in 1992, when it had a staff of about 5,325.  GAO now
proposes further reductions that would bring its staff level to 3,975 by
1997--a cumulative 25-percent reduction from the 1992 level.  At that
size, GAO would employ fewer workers than at any time since the late
1930s. Despite the downsizing, GAO's productivity remains high.  The
agency's work led to $19 billion in measurable financial benefits to
taxpayers in fiscal year 1994 alone.  GAO's carefully phased reduction
plan would allow the agency to meet its core audit, evaluation, and
investigatory responsibilities while yielding personnel savings of $130
million annually.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-OCG-95-3
     TITLE:  Fiscal Year 1996 Budget Estimates for the General 
             Accounting Office
      DATE:  02/23/95
   SUBJECT:  Agency missions
             Future budget projections
             Financial management
             Total quality management
             Budget cuts
             Federal agency reorganization
             Mission budgeting
             Deficit reduction
             Reductions in force
             Systems conversions
IDENTIFIER:  NASA Advanced Solid Rocket Motor Program
             Medicare Program
             TQM
             
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