Today's GAO Reports - December 16, 2009

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released the following report, correspondence and testimonies:

Report

1. Formula Grants: Funding for the Largest Federal Assistance Programs Is Based on Census-Related Data and Other Factors. GAO-10-263, December 15.  Highlights

Correspondence

1. Status of GAO Recommendations to the Department of Defense (Fiscal Years 2001-2008). GAO-10-211R, December 16.

Testimonies

1. Troubled Asset Relief Program: The U.S. Government Role as Shareholder in AIG, Citigroup, Chrysler, and General Motors and Preliminary Views on its Investment Management Activities, by Orice Williams Brown, director, financial markets and community investment, and A. Nicole Clowers, acting director, physical infrastructure, before the Subcommittee on Domestic Policy, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. GAO-10-325T, December 16.  Highlights

2. Veterans Health Administration: Inadequate Controls over Miscellaneous Obligations Increase Risk over Procurement Transactions, by Kay L. Daly, director, financial management and assurance, before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. GAO-10-307T, December 16.  Highlights

3. Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Program: Case Studies Show Fraud and Abuse Allowed Ineligible Firms to Obtain Millions of Dollars in Contracts, by Gregory D. Kutz, managing director, forensic audits and special investigations, before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. GAO-10-306T, December 16.  Highlights

Reissued Product

Emergency Management: Preliminary Observations on FEMA's Community Preparedness Programs Related to the National Preparedness System, by William O. Jenkins, Jr., director, homeland security and justice issues, before the Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response, House Committee on Homeland Security. GAO-10-105T, October 1.  Highlights

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