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GAO concluded in its rapoti that the Congress mhould conelder
revising the basic corporate control laws to include a definition
of a government corporetion: criteria for classifying corporations
into federal, mixed-ownerahip, and privata: and general
accountability standards for a11 governaent corporetiOn8. GAO also
believed that the l nehling legielation of the individual
corporation8 ehould be amended for conaiatency with the laws'
overall proviaiona.
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The CR9 report9 identified 31 govmrnaent corporationa. CR.5
conducted this study for the purpoaa of briefly (1) reviewing the
history of government corporations, (2) evaluating the theoretical
debataa on-going at that tins regarding their utility, and (3)
analyzing the l evaral legal, structural, and political
characteriatica of govmrnaant corporations. The report also
containad individual rmvieva of the 31 governaent corporations.
The iaauma raised by the CR9 study were:
-- vhether the Congress and the Preaidmnt should jointly
'-a Pub- At w Of Govmnt: Thn
, Decamber 1, 1983.
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