Details about
Gao's health were conveyed through a sister-in-law, who is taking care of him.
The
GAO website offers access to the last 15 years of the financial reports of the U.S.
He had painted the fan leaves as a souvenir for a friend, Master Li Songke, when
Gao left his post in Yunnan to return to the capital, Beijing, where he had been appointed vice director of the Board of Works.
The
GAO also mentioned an opinion approving the purchase of stock materials which the agency knows it will not use until the next FY.
Gao is known for defending mass demonstration organizers and practitioners of the banned Falun Gong meditation group.
The
GAO is part of the legislative branch of the federal government and thus is independent of the executive branch.
In its research of other related studies, the
GAO had read that the primary arguments for mandatory audit firm rotation related to auditor independence, audit quality and audit cost.
"The department seems to want to find excuses instead of solutions when it comes to verifying and reviewing undistributed collection data," he said in a statement issued after the release of the
GAO report.
data because of privacy concerns." The
GAO report adds that "we lack assurance that [CAPPS II] will fully comply with the Privacy Act," since the TSA asked for exemption from seven of the law's provisions but has not yet told Congress why.
Despite the growing number of exams, the
GAO's study found little coordination among the states.
GAO investigators also found that nearly all of the 47 plants that it sampled had food safety programs that "failed to meet regulatory requirements."
NAIPAUL, the 2001 Nobel laureate in literature, the Chinese prose writer and dramatist
Gao Xingjian was virtually unknown in the U.S.
