Gao

Examples of Gao in the following topics:

• Making Agencies Accountable

  • The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is the audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of the United States Congress.
  • The GAO's auditors conduct not only financial audits, but also engage in a wide assortment of performance audits.
  • The news, media, and television often draw attention to GAO's work by covering stories on the findings, conclusions, and recommendations in GAO reports.
  • The GAO is the audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of the United States Congress.
  • Describe the role the GAO plays in holding government agencies accountable

• The Staff System

  • The various types of congressional staff are as follows: personal staff, who work for individual members of Congress; committee staff, who serve either the majority or minority on congressional committees; leadership staff, who work for the speaker, majority and minority leaders, and the majority and minority whips; institutional staff, who include the majority and minority party floor staff and non-partisan staff; and the support agency staff, who are the non-partisan employees of the Congressional Research Service (CRS), Congressional Budget Office (CBO), and Government Accountability Office (GAO).
  • In the year 2000, there were approximately 11,692 personal staff, 2,492 committee staff, 274 leadership staff, 5,034 institutional staff, 747 CRS employees, and 232 CBO employees, and 3,500 GAO employees.

• Oversight

  • The Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-344) allowed committees to conduct program evaluation themselves or contract out for it; strengthened GAO's role in acquiring fiscal, budgetary, and program-related information; and upgraded GAO's review capabilities.
  • The House Government Reform Committee and the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, which have oversight jurisdiction over virtually the entire federal government, are authorized to review and study the operation of government activities to determine their economy and efficiency and to submit recommendations based on GAO reports.

• Songhai

  • Sonni Ali established Gao as the capital of the empire, although a Songhai state had existed in and around Gao since the 11th century.
  • During the second half of the 13th century, Gao and the surrounding region had grown into an important trading center and attracted the interest of the expanding Mali Empire.
  • Mali conquered Gao towards the end of the 13th century and the town would remain under Malian hegemony until the late 14th century.
  • But as the Mali Empire started to disintegrate, the Songhai reasserted control of Gao.

• Ancient Africa

  • The most powerful of these states were Ghana, Gao, and the Kanem-Bornu Empire.
  • Its leader Sonni Ali and his successor Askia Mohammad I (1493–1528) made Islam the official religion, built mosques, and brought to Gao Muslim scholars.

• The Role of the Federal Budget

  • These include the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and the U.S.

• Architecture of the Han Dynasty

  • A stone-carved pillar-gate, or que (闕), 6 m (20 ft) in total height, located at the tomb of Gao Yi in Ya'an, Sichuan province, was built during the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 CE).

• The Budgeting Process

  • These include the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congressional Budget Office, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the U.S.

• Trade Under the Tang Dynasty

  • The Tang captured the vital route through the Gilgit Valley from Tibet in 722, lost it to the Tibetans in 737, and regained it under the command of the Goguryeo-Korean General Gao Xianzhi.

• Mali

  • He embarked on a large building program, raising mosques and madrasas in Timbuktu and Gao.