House Oversight Committee: WH Ignored Suggested Reforms Worth $67 Billion

by Kerry Picket

by Kerry Picket1 Jun 2013, 10:42 AM PDTpost a comment

"This report chronicles $67 billion in unimplemented reforms that non-partisan Inspectors General have identified," said Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R–CA). "President Obama should listen to the recommendations of his Administration's own Inspector Generals and work with Congress to implement common sense spending cuts that target wasteful and poorly performing programs instead of settling for the furloughs and service disruptions happening under the sequester."

The report showed the following findings:

Federal agencies did not implement 15,784 recommendations from the IGs in FY2011, worth more than $55 billion to taxpayers.
In January 2009, former Chairman Waxman found that federal agencies could have saved taxpayers $25.9 billion by implementing open IG recommendations. Today, there are 16,906 unimplemented recommendations worth $67 billion to taxpayers.
The numbers of unimplemented recommendations and unrealized savings for taxpayers have increased every year since 2009.

The report contends the State Department, Department of Homeland Security, and USAID ranked first, second, and fourth among agencies with the most unimplemented recommendations in 2012. All these agencies still have IG vacancies.

House Oversight Committee: WH Ignored Suggested Reforms Worth $67 Billion
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/06/01/House-Oversight-Obama-Admin-Ignored-Almost-17-000-Recommendations-From-IG-s

John Hames