mr. nabors. mr. mihm,n your prepared statement there was aumber of recommendations that gao had proposed. there's not a page number. it says gao recommendations, accountability a trance paspare. then you have various bullets. have those recommendations been largely complied with? if not, maybe for the record you could provide us with the areas where you think there needs to be further accountability and transparency. >> the second half of your question, yes, sir. in our september report, the one that's coming out in a couple weeks, we'll give an assessment of all the recommendations we've been making and where omb and other federal agencies are in that regard. to the first half as to whether or not they've been complied withas i mentioned earlier, i think the pilot program that director nabors was talking about for single audit is very important to addressing many of the concerns that we have in regards to the accountability and transparency aspects here. that is that we need these internal control c

mr. nabors? >> i concur with the assessment. i think our view of the importance of the f map program is exactly how mr. him laid it out. what the states have told us is because they have access to this f map money in other areas such as education or law enforcement, there's reduced pressure on their budget and they're able to both create and retain other types of jobs through the availability of the f map money. >> sort of a trickle-down economics i would guess. plvmt nabors, i've seen many administration witnesses and i understand you have to tout the success of whatever program that the administration is running. i do think it might be well to complete the record that when the stimulus package was being considered in the united states senate, the economic advisers to the president, the director of omb said maximum unemployment would be 8%. it's now 9.7%. i just came back from spending a lot of time in my state as many members did. and my state is one of the hardest hit. our small business owners that are closing their doors and

mr. nabors, we have a bill that's been in this committee and it's been held up somewhere called 1064 whichwould give .5% financing to those local state auditors and finance officers. you said that you're giving money to state and local governments for that increased responsibility. is there a dollar amount that you have on that? how are you -- >> we allow up to .5% to be used for administrative costs and for oversight. i think what 1064 does is allow an additional .5% to be used. we've indicated our strong support for that bill. >> mr. chairman, that bill has been held up somewhere. we've got to get that bill to the floor. the house has already passed i. as being a former state controller, former state finance officer, we need the funds. we don't want to come up short in that regard. mr. liebowitz, on the consu fraud problem, probably a response to my colleague, senator tester, what we have on the fraud issue, and being a former attorney general in my state, is that we're dealing with a consumer being defrauded out of their funds. these are not reallyederal funds that they're using. they'r