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Transcript for: 2013 High Risk Overview from the Comptroller General

Description: Comptroller General Gene Dodaro introduces GAO's 2013 High
Risk List, and explains the addition and removal of areas from the 2013
list.

Learn More: http://www.gao.gov/highrisk

Released: February 2013

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GAO's 2013 High Risk List

>>Hello, I'm Gene Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United States and
head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office, or GAO.

Every 2 years at the start of each new session of Congress, GAO
publishes our High Risk List. This list is a collection of areas at
high risk for waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement, or areas in need
of broad-based transformation. With this new 2013 list, GAO has added
two new areas. First, we have added mitigating potential gaps in
weather satellite data. We all know in the wake of Superstorm Sandy how
critical such weather data can be. We've also added limiting the
government's fiscal exposure by better managing risk from climate
change to the list.

Thanks to progress Congress and the Executive Branch have made in the
past 2 years, we are also removing two areas from the list--Management
of Interagency Contracting  and IRS's Business System Modernization.
Solid progress has also been made in addressing many of the items
remaining on the list for now. With focused attention and reform,
improvements in the 30 areas now on the list could lead to billions of
dollars in savings for taxpayers, dramatically improve service to the
public, and strengthen confidence in the performance and accountably of
the federal government.

I hope you will explore our website to learn more about our High Risk
List and our recommendations to improve the performance of our
government. Thank you.

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