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Comptroller General of the United States

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The United States Comptroller General is the director of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) (formerly known as Government Accounting Office), a government agency founded in 1921 to ensure the accountability of the federal government.

The Comptroller General is appointed for a fifteen-year term. The current Comptroller General is David M. Walker, who became the seventh Comptroller General of the United States on November 9, 1998.