Jump to content

Comptroller General of the United States

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Viajero (talk | contribs) at 10:46, 29 March 2005 (new article, head of US Government Accountability Office). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)

The United States Comptroller General is the director of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) (formerly known as Government Accounting Office), a goverment 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.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Comptroller_General_of_the_United_States&oldid=12826086"