Government Accountability Office

In a significant development, Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH) has reintroduced the Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States (STATES) 2.0 Act, signaling a renewed effort to end federal marijuana prohibition in states where it is legal. The revised bill, co-sponsored by Rep. Lori...

The most recent report for the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CSJ) produced by the House of Committee on Appropriations includes a novel section concerning psilocybin, where it demands a Government Accountability Office (GAO) analysis concerning state, local and tribal psilocybin...

Three-quarters of U.S. Border Patrol drug seizures were exclusively for marijuana, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) published in early June. The analysis of Border Patrol data, from 2016 through 2020, showed that officers pulled in roughly 35,700...

The COVID-19 pandemic could hamper freight and passenger railroads' ability to meet the December 31 deadline on positive train control (PTC) implementation, according to an April 30 report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to Senator Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi), chairman of the...

Americans want government services to be as easily accessible as Yelp Inc (NYSE: YELP) or Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG), a Wall Street Journal report said, citing Neil Kleiman, a professor of policy at New York University. The ease with which the public can go to Yelp for...

When the CIA gave a $600 million cloud computing contract to Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) earlier this year, IBM (NYSE: IBM) appealed to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) – stating that Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) bid does not fall within the set criteria within the contract. While GAO stated...