Political Quotes

“House Joint Resolution 70, recognizes the accomplishments of the Inspectors General on the 25th anniversary of the passage of the Inspector General Act. Twenty-five years ago this month, the Government Reform Committee--then known as the Government Operations Committee--worked in a bipartisan fashion to enact legislation that established Inspectors General in six Cabinet level departments and another six government agencies. The IG Act was adopted in response to a need to reduce fraud and waste and to enhance accountability in the federal government. Under the IG Act, audit and investigative units within an agency were consolidated under a single office with protections designed to ensure independence and objectivity. The IG Act has since been expanded so that today we have IGs in 29 major department sand agencies and in 28 smaller federal entities. Over the last quarter century, IGs have been a vital asset in the war against waste, fraud, and mismanagement in the programs and operations of the federal government. The IGs and their more than 11,000 hardworking auditors, investigators, inspectors, and support staff, produce impressive results each year. In fiscal year 2002, IG audits resulted in savings of tens of billions of taxpayer dollars and returns of hundreds of millions of dollars to the Treasury. In addition, IG investigations resulted in thousands of successful criminal prosecutions.…”