Shooting the messenger
Subtitle: Congress targets the taxpayers' watchdog
By: a report by Tom A. Coburn, M.D., U.S. Senator, Oklahoma
Publisher: [Sen. Tom Coburn]
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 29
Subjects: Waste in government spending; Appropriations and expenditures; United States; United States. Congress; United States. Government Accountability Office; Evaluation; Prevention
Description: "[In 2011], GAO identified hundreds of billions of dollars of duplicative and overlapping programs  that, if addressed by Congress, could both save money and improve services for taxpayers. Yet,  instead of adopting these good government reforms, the Senate Appropriations Committee has  responded by proposing dramatic budget cuts to the GAO budget. [...] This report outlines how GAO continues to do more with less while Congress is doing less with  more and demonstrates the cuts proposed by the House and Senate are misdirected and should be  rejected."
Notes: "November 2011."

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available on the Internet from the Senate web site. Address as of 12/10/2014: http://coburn.senate.gov/public//index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=c6bdbe64-ad37-4571-9c6a-8d97a3154253; current access via LC handle.