The Need to Improve Holiday Administration Overseas

GAO previously reported to Congress that the degree to which holidays were being observed overseas appeared to be inappropriate. The Department of State advised its diplomatic and consular posts of these findings and asked them to review their holiday observance policies. The posts were told that they should observe only local holidays where failure to do so would be contrary to the interests of the United States, but the posts were not specifically instructed to reduce the number of holidays observed.