Comptroller General of the United States
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The Comptroller General of the United States is the director of the Government Accountability Office (GAO, formerly known as the General Accounting Office), a legislative branch agency founded by Congress in 1921 to ensure the accountability of the federal government.
The Comptroller General is appointed for a fifteen-year term by the President of the United States with the advice and consent of the Senate. The current Comptroller General is David M. Walker, who became the seventh Comptroller General of the United States on November 9, 1998. The sixth Comptroller General was Charles Bowsher ('66-'81). The fifth Comtroller General was Elmer Staats('81-'98).[[1]]
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