The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released the following reports and testimonies:
Reports 1. Climate Change: EPA and DOE Should Do More to Encourage Progress under Two Voluntary Programs. GAO-06-97, April 25. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-97 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d0697high.pdf 2. Trade Adjustment Assistance: Labor Should Take Action to Ensure Performance Data Are Complete, Accurate, and Accessible. GAO-06-496, April 25. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-496 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d06496high.pdf 3. Defense Inventory: Actions Needed to Improve Inventory Retention Management. GAO-06-512, May 25. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-512 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d06512high.pdf 4. Personnel Practices: Conversions of Employees from Noncareer to Career Positions May 2001-April 2005. GAO-06-381, May 1. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-381 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d06381high.pdf Reposted Product 1. Offshoring in Six Human Services Programs: Offshoring Occurs in Most States, Primarily in Customer Service and Software Development. GAO-06-342, March 28. [Revised to correct data on the occurrence in two state programs due to an error made by a contractor in its survey response to GAO.] http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-342 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d06342high.pdf Testimonies 1. Budget Process: Better Transparency, Controls, Triggers, and Default Mechanisms Would Help to Address Our Large and Growing Long-Term Fiscal Challenge, by David M. Walker, comptroller general of the United States, before the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International Security, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. GAO-06-761T, May 25. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-761T Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d06761thigh.pdf 2. Tax Debt: Some Combined Federal Campaign Charities Owe Payroll and Other Federal Taxes, by Gregory D. Kutz, managing director, foreign audits and special investigations, before the Subcommittee on Oversight, House Committee on Ways and Means. GAO-06-755T, May 25. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-755T Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d06755thigh.pdf 3. Hurricane Katrina: Better Plans and Exercises Needed to Guide the Military's Response to Catastrophic Natural Disasters, statement for the record by Sharon L. Pickup, director, defense capabilities and management, before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats, and Capabilities, House Committee on Armed Services. GAO-06-808T, May 25. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-808T Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d06808thigh.pdf These and other GAO products are available from the "Reports and Testimony" section of GAO's Internet site, http://www.gao.gov. Help with viewing PDF files is available from the "Help" section of http://www.gao.gov. Check the information in the section titled, "Help with Reading Portable Document Format Files" if you have difficulty. Subscribe to this or other E-mail updates about GAO products at the "Subscribe to Updates" section of http://www.gao.gov. Remove yourself from this mailing list by sending an E-mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: unsubscribe daybook in the message body. Order printed copies of any of these items from GAO: 202-512-6000 (voice) 202-512-2537 (TDD) 202-512-6061 (fax). Members of the press may request copies from the Office of Public Affairs, 202-512-4800. =========================================================== This list is produced by the Government Accountability Office to provide daily information about GAO Reports and Testimony. Access GAO on the web at http://www.gao.gov
