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Noun: United States Government Accounting Office
  1. An independent nonpartisan federal agency that acts as the investigative arm of Congress making the executive branch accountable to Congress and the government accountable to citizens of the United States
    - Government Accounting Office, GAO

Type of: agency, authority, bureau, federal agency, government agency, office

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