U. S. Government Accountability Office (U. S. GAO) Gene L Dodaro is the eighth Comptroller General of the United States and head of GAO As Comptroller General, Mr Dodaro leads GAO and helps oversee the hundreds of reports and testimonies that GAO provides each year to various committees and individual Members of Congress The U S Comptroller General is appointed to a 15-year term
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