Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Philanthropy
Tax-Law Professors Recommend GAO Investigation of Charities’ Involvement in Politics
“Such an examination by a respected Congressional agency could reassure both critics and defenders of the IRS generally and the Exempt Organizations division in particular,” according to Ellen P. Aprill…
by Michael E. Hartmann on February 15, 2023

Labor Watch
Official Time
(Labor Watch, November 2011, PDF here) Title V of the U.S. Code allows federal government employees to do union work while on the job. This…
by F. Vincent Vernuccio, Trey Kovacs on November 1, 2011

Blog
GAO Launches ACORN Probe
The Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, has opened an investigation into ACORN. It’s unclear to me if the GAO did this on its…
by Matthew Vadum on December 17, 2009

Blog
Senate Kills Federal Reserve Audit
After Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska) used a procedural trick in the U.S. Senate to torpedo a longshot legislative bid that would have had the Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit the Federal Reserve Board, Sen. Jim…
by Matthew Vadum on July 10, 2009