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A Look at the FY2010 Consolidated Financial Statements of the U.S. Government
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Are Federal Workers Underpaid?

Subcommittee Chairman Dennis Ross Opening Statement We are here today to discuss whether federal employees are compensated fairly. According to the Office of Personnel Management the average salary for federal employees was $74,311 in 2010. The average private sector worker earned $50,462, according to an August 10, 2010 analysis conducted by the Cato Institute. The federal government also pays an average of 36 percent of employees’ base pay health insurance ...
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Assessing the Cumulative Impact of Regulation on U.S. Manufacturers
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Let Opportunity Scholars SOAR

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Field Hearing “The Foreclosure Crisis”

Chairman Darrell Issa Hearing Preview Statement Tuesday’s hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, entitled “The Foreclosure Crisis,” follows a tradition of the committee’s work to hold field hearings at locations around the country where the subject matter is especially pertinent to issues facing those communities. The Baltimore area is facing record unemployment – hovering well above the national average at 10.5 percent – ...
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Meet Your Oversight Watchdogs: New York Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle

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VIDEO RELEASE – Meet Oversight Watchdog Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle

WASHINGTON, DC – The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today released “Meet Your Oversight Watchdogs: Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle,” the second in a series of videos to introduce committee members to the American people. Rep. Buerkle serves the people of New York’s 25th Congressional District as Vice Chairwoman of the Oversight Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight & Government Spending and on the ...
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Oversight Subcommittee to Probe Government’s Financial Books, Examine Real Deficit

Government’s financial statements show total deficit in Fiscal Year 2010 to be twice as large as advertised   WASHINGTON, D.C. - Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Todd Platts, R-Pa., wants to examine the real size of the deficit when taking into account private sector accounting standards, and ask the nation’s top audit and financial management officials how we can get the government a clean financial bill of health. This week the Government ...
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Chairman Issa Lauds Leadership Change in Troubled GAO Unit

Washington, D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) today applauded changes in the structure and leadership for the Forensic Audit and Special Investigations unit (FSI) of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) made after the revelations of serious errors in a GAO report. Rick Hillman, current Managing Director of the Financial Markets and Community Investments team, is replacing Greg Kutz, the Managing Director responsible for releasing an ...
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3-11-11 "Red to Black: Improving the Collection of Delinquent Debt Owed to the Government"

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