Who's in Charge
of the Missing Money?


TABLE OF CONTENTS

    I. LEGISLATIVE: Congress

  II. JUDICIAL: Supreme Court

III. EXECUTIVE: President

IV. OTHER

Following is a list of the current people in the chain of command who are responsible to ensure that our resources are properly managed. They are responsible to find any missing money, get it back and hold responsible those who have been incompetent or criminal. (as of November 12, 2003)


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  1. LEGISLATIVE: Congress
  2. Your representatives in Congress authorize the collection of taxes, the issuance of debt and budgets, and the appropriation of funds. If the Executive Branch does not do what they authorize or appropriate, Congress has the power to cut off the money.

    1. House Leaders & Committee Chairpeople
    2. [Information is as of the date of construction of this site; for current information, click the title below the name.]

      House Leadership


      J. Dennis Hastert
      Speaker of the House
      John Boehner
      John Boehner
      House Majority Leader

       

      Former
      Tom Delay - House Majority Leader

      The Ways and Means Committee
      Oversees the government's revenue raising, including taxes.


      Bill Thomas
      Chairman
      Ways and Means Committee

       

      The Appropriations Committee
      Oversees the governments spending and issuance of guarantees, securities and other obligations.


      Congressman Jerry Lewis
      Chairman
      Appropriations Committee,
      Former Chairman, HUD Appropriations Subcommittee


      Joe Knollenberg
      Chairman
      Subcommittee on Transportation, Treasury, and Housing and Urban Development, The Judiciary, District of Columbia
      Walsh
      James Walsh
      Chairman
      Subcommittee on Military Quality of Life and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies
      Bill Young
      Congressman Bill Young
      Chairman, Subcommitte on Defense, former Chairman of the Appropriations Committee

      Hal Rogers
      Hal Rogers
      Chairman
      Homeland Security

      Henry Bonilla
      Henry Bonilla
      Chairman, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development & FDA
      David Hobson
      David L. Hobson
      Chairman, Subcommitte on
      Energy & Water Development
      Jim Kolbe
      Jim Kolbe
      Chairman, Subcommitt on
      Foreign Operations & Export Financing
      Charles Taylor
      Charles H. Taylor
      Chairman, Subcommittee on
      Interior and Environment
      Ralph Regula
      Ralph Regula
      Chairman, Subcommittee on
      Labor, Health & Human Services
      Frank Wolf
      Frank Wolf
      Chairman, Subcommittee on
      Science, Departments of State, Justice & Commerce
       

      The Budget Committee
      Oversees the budget which creates the framework within which the Appropriations Committee works.
      Jim Nussle
      Chairman, Budget Committee

      The Committee on Government Reform
      Oversees the management and infrastructure of the federal agencies, including the 24 agencies covered in the CFO Act, which outlined standards of financial performance and disclosure.

      Tom Davis
      Chairman, Committee on Government Reform

       

    3. Senate Leaders & Committee Chairpeople
    4. Senate Leadership

      Ted Stevens
      President Pro Tem

      Bill Frist
      Senate Majority Leader

      Committee on Finance
      Oversees the government's revenue raising, including taxes.

      Chuck Grassley
      Chairman

      Committee on Appropriations
      Oversees the governments spending and issuance of guarantees, securities and other obligations.

      All members (2006)

      Ted Stevens
      Commerce, Justice, & Science
      Defense (Chairman)
      Homeland Security
      Interior and Related Agencies
      Labor, HHS, and Education
      Transportation, Treasury, the Judiciary,
      HUD & Related Agencies

      Christopher ("Kit") Bond
      Agriculture, Rural Development
      Commerce, Justice, and Science
      Defense
      Energy and Water Development
      State, Foreign Operations
      Transportation, Treasury, the Judiciary,
      HUD & Related Agencies (Chairman)

      Richard Shelby
      Commerce, Justice, and Science (Chairman)
      Defense
      Homeland Security
      Labor, HHS, and Education
      State and Foreign Operations
      Transportation, Treasury, the Judiciary,
      HUD & Related Agencies

      The Budget Committee
      Oversees the budget which creates the framework within which the Appropriations Committee works.

      Judd Gregg
      Chairman

      The Committee on Government Reform
      Oversees the management and infrastructure of the federal agencies, including the 24 agencies covered in the CFO Act, which outlined standards of financial performance and disclosure.

      All members (2006)

      Susan Collins
      Chairman
      Governmental Affairs Committee (now the Committee on Homeland Ssecurity & Governmental Affairs)

      Former Chairman
      Fred Thompson

    5. Government Accounting Office (GAO)
    6. Congress has an auditor to ensure that it has all the smarts necessary to know what is going on in the government and to make sure that what it authorizes is what really happens.

      David M.Walker (Clinton 1998)
      Comptroller General of the United States
      General Accounting Office


  3. JUDICIAL: Supreme Court

    1. The Supreme Court
    2. The Supreme Court is the highest tribunal in the land for all cases and controversies arising under the constitution or the laws of the United States. As the guardian and interpretor of the constitution, the primary function of the Supreme Court is to ensure equal justice under the law. The US Constitution established three independent and coequal branches of government -- Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. The Supreme Court's role in this system stems from its authority to invalidate legislation or executive actions which it deems to be unconstitutional. In other words, if Congress or the President behave unconstitutionally, it is the duty of the Supreme Court to step in and intervene.

      Current
      John G. Roberts, Jr. (2005:Bush)
      Associate Justice (1975:Ford) John Paul Stevens
      Associate Justice (1986:Reagan) Antonin Scalia
      Associate Justice (1988:Reagan) Anthony M. Kennedy
      Associate Justice (1990:Bush) David H. Souter
      Associate Justice (1991:Bush) Clarence Thomas
      Associate Justice (1993:Clinton) Ruth Bader Ginsburg
      Associate Justice (1994:Clinton) Stephen G. Breyer
      Associate Justice (2006:Bush) Samuel A. Alito, Jr.

      William H. Rehnquist Chief Justice (1986 until his death in 2005)
      Previously Associate Justice (1972-1986: nominated by Nixon)

      Former
      See Members of the Supreme Court (1789 to Present)

    3. Federal District Court System

    4. Former
      Judge Stanley Sporkin


  4. EXECUTIVE: President
    1. White House
    2. The President of the United States is the boss. That means he and the members of his Cabinent have the ability to cut off monies, contracts and compensation to an agency, contractor or personnel who are running their operations in accordance with law. Current

      George W. Bush
      President

      Former
      Bill Clinton

      Office of Management and Budget
      The President has an office in the White House who is in charge of managing the president's budget and making sure that the agencies of the federal government are well managed. The head of that office is the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

      Current:
      Rob Portman

      Former:
      Joshua Bolton
      Mitch Daniels
      Franklin Raines

      Presidential Councils

      President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency: Within OMB, the coordinating committee to oversee the Inspector Generals (auditors) of all the federal agencies is the http://www.ignet.gov/ Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council: Within the White House, these appointees advise the President on critical economic issues.

      Current
      Charles P. Blahous

      Former
      Stephen Friedman
      Larry Lindsay
      Bob Rubin

    3. US Treasury
    4. The financial operations and reporting of the government – including the consolidated accounts, cash management and financing – are run by the US Treasury. The Treasury is responsible for the financial integrity of the US government. The Treasury has numerous powers to ensure that an individual agency is complying with the laws regarding financial management and integrity. The US Treasury (including the IRS at Treasury) and selected agencies maintain data regarding who owes the government monies and who the government owes money to. This data is critical to achieving recoveries through the power of offset.


      Secretary of Treasury

      Current

      John Snow (Bush 2003)
      Secretary of the Treasury

      Henry Paulson

      Henry M. Paulson, Jr. (May 2006)
      Secretary of the Treasury Elect

      Former
      Paul O'Neill (Bush 2001)
      Lawrence Summers (Clinton 1989)
      Robert Rubin
      (Clinton 1995)

      Under Secretary of Domestic Finance

      Current
      Brian Roseboro

      Former
      John (Jerry) Hawke
      Gary Gensler
      Peter Fischer

      The Comptroller of the Currency
      Is the lead US banking regulator. If money is missing from the US government, it is the bank records and IRS records that will show where it is going.

      John (Jerry) Hawke
      Comptroller of the Currency

      Treasury Inspector General (IG)

      The agency's internal auditor. Jeffrey Rush

      US Depository

      The Treasury is authorized to issue US currency. It does not do so. The creation and management of the US currency has been outsourced to the Federal Reserve. The member banks of the Federal Reserve, including the NY Fed, which is the fiscal agent for the US Treasury, are privately owned. Their equity ownership and policies of sharing financial data with their owners is private.

      Current
      Ben S. Bernanke
      Chairman (Bush 2006)
      Federal Reserve System

      Former
      Alan Greenspan
      Wikipedia History of Chairpersons

      Current
      Timothy F. Geithner
      President & CEO
      New York Federal Reserve Bank (Oct 2003)
      As Fiscal Agent for US Government and Exchange Stabilization Fund

      Former
      William McDonough

    5. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD)
    6. HUD has a large mortgage insurance operation, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), and a mortgage securities operation, the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae). HUD also allocates housing and community development subsidies, much of what support private stocks and private and state and local municipal bonds. HUD has regulatory responsibility for the government sponsored mortgage enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (currently under investigation), which are crucial to the US financial system since they effectively underwrite the mortgage market. HUD is still missing $59.6 billion from FY1999. The FHA remains on the hotlist of top management "challenges" governmentwide.

      Secretary of HUD

      The Secretary of HUD is the boss. He and his appointees have the power, subject to the pleasure of President, to cut off or impair the monies, contracts or compensation going to HUD offices, contractors or personnel not obeying law or regulation.

      Note: Because the HUD operation is highly dependent on Treasury and the Department of Justice, little can happen at HUD without their knowledge or consensus.

      Current
      Alphonso Jackson
      (Bush, March 2004)

      Former

      Mel Martinez (Bush 2001)
      Andrew Cuomo (Clinton 1997)
      Other Past Secretaries of HUD

      Assistant Secretary of Housing/FHA Commissioner

      Current
      Brian D. Montgomery

      Former
      John C. Weicher
      Bill Apgar
      Nic Retsinas

      President of Ginnie Mae

      Current
      Vacant

      Michael J. Frenz
      Executive Vice President

      Former
      Ronnie Rosenfeld
      Kevin Chavers

      President of Fannie Mae

      Daniel H. Mudd
      President and CEO

      Former

      Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

      HUD's consolidated accounts are overseen by its Chief Financial Officer.

      Current
      John Cox
      (Bush 2006)

      Former
      Carin Barth (Bush 2004)
      Angela Antonelli (Bush 2001)

      Richard Keevey

      HUD Inspector General (IG)

      This is HUD's internal auditor. If money is missing, the IG is supposed to figure out where it went and get it back, or bring in the FBI and Treasury to help it do so.

      Current
      Kenneth Donohue
      (Bush 2002)

      Former
      Susan Gaffney
      (Clinton 1993)

      OFHEO (Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight)

      This office oversees the government sponsored mortgage enterprises, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.

      Current
      James B. Lockhart III (Bush 2006)
      Director, OFHEO

      Former
      Armando Falcon (Clinton 1999)
      Kevin Chavers (Clinton 1997)

    7. Department of Defense (DoD)
    8. The Department of Defense (DOD) is run by the President, as commander-in-chief, and the Secretary of Defense. The DOD includes the pentagon, the military forces such as Army, Navy, Air Force, offices such as Joint Chiefs of Staff, plus various agencies such as the National Security Agency (NSA).


      Secretary of Defense

      The Secretary of Defense is the boss. He and his appointees have the power, subject to the pleasure of President, to cut off or impair the monies, contracts or compensation going to the various armed services, DOD offices, contractors or personnel not obeying law or regulation.

      Current:

      Donald Rumsfeld
      Secretary of Defense

      Former:
      William Cohen

      Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

      Current
      Tina Jonas (2004)
      Chief Financial Officer

      Former
      Dov Zakheim

      DoD Inspector General (IG)

      Current
      Thomas F. Gimble (Bush 2005)
      Acting Inspector General

      Former
      Joseph E. Schmitz (Bush 2001)
      Inspector General Historical Data, Federal Departments
      (March 2006)

    9. Department of Jusice (DOJ)
    10. Attorney General

      The Attorney General is the nation's top enforcement official and is the Department of Justice boss. He and his appointees have the power, subject to the pleasure of President, to cut of or impair the monies, contracts or compensation going to DOJ offices, contractors or personnel not obeying law or regulation.They also have wide latitude to investigate and prosecute government officials and contractors who are not complying with laws and regulations and to find and seize back by direct seizure or power of offset, any monies, assets, securities or credits that may have been stolen from or fraudulently issued by the federal government.

      Current
      Alberto Gonzales
      Alberto Gonzalez (Bush 2005)

      Former
      John Ashcroft (Bush 2001)
      Janet Reno
      (Clinton 1993)

      Deputy Attorney General

      Current
      Paul J. McNulty
      (Bush 2006)

      Former
      Jamie Gorelick (Also see Dillon, Read & The Aristocracy of Prison Profits, Ch 10)
      Larry Thompson
      Eric Holder

      Office of Professional Responsibility
      The Office of Professional Responsibility oversees complaints regarding unethical behavior by DOJ attorneys. If government money is missing and DOJ attorneys are doing nothing about it, this Office has the ability to take actions to hold them accountable.

      Current
      H. Marshall Jarrett
      (Reno 1998)

      Public Integrity Section - Criminal Division
      http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/pin.html

      Current
      Noel Hillman
      (2001)

      Former
      Lee Radek

      FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)

      Financial Crimes Unit
      Financial Crimes Report to the Public (May 2005)

      DOJ Inspector General (IG)
      If someone at DOJ is not doing their job, the IG as the internal auditor can say or do things about it.

      Current
      Glenn A. Fine

      Former
      Michael R. Bromwich


  5. OTHER
    1. Government-Wide Councils
    2. US Chief Financial Officers Council
      http://www.cfoc.gov/

      US Chief Information Officers Council
      http://www.cio.gov/

    3. Government Contractors
    4. For a list of selected contractors active at agencies missing money, see
      Missing Money Articles and Documents -- Government Contractors.

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