The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released the following reports and testimonies:
Reports 1. Foster Care and Adoption Assistance: Federal Oversight Needed to Safeguard Funds and Ensure Consistent Support for States' Administrative Costs. GAO-06-649, June 15. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-649 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d06649high.pdf 2. VA Health Care: Steps Taken to Improve Practitioner Screening, but Facility Compliance with Screening Requirements Is Poor. GAO-06-544, May 25. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-544 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d06544high.pdf 3. VA Health Care: Selected Credentialing Requirements at Seven Medical Facilities Met, but an Aspect of Privileging Process Needs Improvement. GAO-06-648, May 25. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-648 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d06648high.pdf 4. 2010 Census: Census Bureau Needs to Take Prompt Actions to Resolve Long-standing and Emerging Address and Mapping Challenges. GAO-06-272, June 15. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-272 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d06272high.pdf Testimonies 1. Social Security Administration: Agency is Positioning Itself to Implement Its New Disability Determination Process, but Key Facets Are Still in Development, by Robert E. Robertson, director, education, workforce, and income security issues, before the Subcommittee on Social Security, House Committee on Ways and Means. GAO-06-779T, June 15. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-779T Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d06779thigh.pdf 2. VA Health Care: Patient Safety Could Be Enhanced by Improvements in Employment Screening and Physician Privileging Practices, by Laurie E. Ekstrand, director, health care, before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. GAO-06-760T, June 15. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-760T Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d06760thigh.pdf 3. Intermodal Transportation: Challenges to and Potential Strategies for Developing Improved Intermodal Capabilities, by Katherine A. Siggerud, director, physical infrastructure, before the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit, and Pipelines, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. GAO-06-855T, June 15. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-855T Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d06855thigh.pdf 4. Coast Guard: Observations on Agency Performance, Operations, and Future Challenges, by Steven L. Caldwell, acting director, homeland security and justice, before the Subcommittee on Fisheries and the Coast Guard, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. GAO-06-448T, June 15. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-448T Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d06448thigh.pdf 5. Crop Insurance: More Needs to Be Done to Reduce Program's Vulnerability to Fraud, Waste, and Abuse, by Daniel Bertoni, acting director, natural resources and environment, before the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management, House Committee on Agriculture. GAO-06-878T, June 15. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-878T Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d06878thigh.pdf 6. Environmental Liabilities: Hardrock Mining Cleanup Obligations, statement for the record by John B. Stephenson, director, natural resources and environment, before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. GAO-06-884T, June 14. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-884T Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d06884thigh.pdf These and other GAO products are available from the "Reports and Testimony" section of GAO's Internet site, http://www.gao.gov. Help with viewing PDF files is available from the "Help" section of http://www.gao.gov. Check the information in the section titled, "Help with Reading Portable Document Format Files" if you have difficulty. Subscribe to this or other E-mail updates about GAO products at the "Subscribe to Updates" section of http://www.gao.gov. Remove yourself from this mailing list by sending an E-mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: unsubscribe daybook in the message body. Order printed copies of any of these items from GAO: 202-512-6000 (voice) 202-512-2537 (TDD) 202-512-6061 (fax). Members of the press may request copies from the Office of Public Affairs, 202-512-4800. =========================================================== This list is produced by the Government Accountability Office to provide daily information about GAO Reports and Testimony. Access GAO on the web at http://www.gao.gov
