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To be in the NFL record books as one of the all-time leading rushers in NFL playoff history obviously means that one would have to participate in a high number of postseason games. The same goes for the all-time postseason rushing touchdowns list.

While a somewhat obscure name might appear on a list of single-game records for passing, rushing, or receiving, thats usually not the case when discussing all-time lists and thats definitely not the case here as the all-time leaders in NFL playoff rushing yards and touchdowns are all big-name players.

And it really shouldnt come as a surprise that the all-time leading rusher in NFL history in the regular season, Emmitt Smith, is also the postseason leader in both yards and touchdowns.

RELATED: Emmitt Smith Says His Lone Matchup Against the Cowboys in a Cardinals Uniform Took His Soul for the Game and Made Him Cry

Over the course of 15 NFL seasons, 13 with the Dallas Cowboys and two with the Arizona Cardinals, Emmitt Smith racked up a record 18,355 regular-season rushing yards, 1,629 yards more than the man who held the record for 18 years, the late, great Walter Payton.

In addition, the three-time Super Bowl champion rushed for 1,586 yards in the NFL playoffs, which is also a league record, a mark thats all the more impressive due to the fact that he appeared in just 17 NFL playoff games in his career, a total thats currently tied for 158th in league history.

Heres a look at the top five rushers in NFL playoff history.

Terrell Davis is the only other player to rush for more than 1,000 yards in the postseason and if hed had more chances, he very easily could be No. 1 on this list as he rushed for 1,140 yards in just eight NFL playoff games with the Denver Broncos.

As Emmitt Smith is the all-time rushing leader in both the NFL regular season and postseason, hes also the all-time leader in rushing touchdowns in both the regular season and postseason.

The eight-time Pro Bowler rushed for 164 touchdowns during his 15-year career and an additional 19 in the NFL playoffs. Heres a look at the top five on the postseason rushing touchdowns list, which is actually the top six with ties.

RELATED: Who Has the Most Passing Yards in a Single NFL Playoff Game?

As it pertains to quarterbacks, San Francisco 49ers legend and two-time NFL MVP Steve Young is his positions leader in both rushing yards and rushing touchdowns in the NFL playoffs.

In 22 postseason games, Young rushed for 594 yards, which is good for 33rd on the all-time list, and eight touchdowns, which is currently tied for 12th in NFL playoff history.

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Nominations are being sought for the 2021 Brighton Area Womens History Roll of Honor.

Since 2003 the Roll of Honor has recognized women who have achieved prominence or significantly contributed to the Brighton community while having lived, worked, or been affiliated with the area for an extended period of time. Honorees have demonstrated distinctive accomplishments that hold an endearing nature to social, cultural, economic, or political well-being of the community.

Over the past 18 years, the Roll of Honor has recognized 103 women and 8 Athletic Championship Honorees. The group includes 10 military veterans, two of the first women in Michigan to vote, and 37 graduates of Brighton High School.

Applications for the 2021 Roll are now open through January 31st.

Brighton Area Womens History Roll of Honor Secretary/Treasurer Beth Walker said that they hope to hold a ceremony to honor inductees sometime in the summer when more people are vaccinated and restrictions from the governor are potentially lightened. When it is held, they will also honor the 2020 class, which was denied their ceremony last year due to the pandemic. Seven women were selected for the 2020 Roll of Honor. Walker said the ceremonies always prove to be special with friends and family, city officials, and past Honor members showing up to support the new ones.

Nomination forms can be picked up in person at the Brighton District Library, the Greater Brighton Area Chamber of Commerce, and the BECC Building. They can also be found online at http://www.brightonlibrary.info/roll_of_honor. Any questions concerning the nomination process may be made by email at BrightonWomensHistory@gmail.com, or by calling (810) 227-0656.

To hear more from Walker on the application process and about the 7 honorees from the 2020 Roll of Honor, tune in to WHMIs Viewpoint this Sunday morning at 8:30.

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NEW YORK (WCBS 880) On Wednesday, America watched in horror as a dark day was written in history at the U.S. Capitol.

As Congress worked to certify President-elect Joe Bidens victory in the 2020 election, a mob of President Donald Trumps supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol Building.

Members of Congress were forced into hiding, scrambled to hide under desks, were told to don gas masks and evacuated to undisclosed safe rooms.

For hours, insurrectionist wreaked havoc on the building until federal authorities were able to take control.

There are a number of angles to this story, many of which are covered in WCBS 880s one-hour special report Chaos in the Capitol A Nation Divided, but in this weeks In Depth Podcast, we wanted to dig into the historical precedent.

For that, WCBS 880 reporter Peter Haskell spoke with Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs, who says the event was unprecedented.

The only time that the capitol has been attacked and taken over was in the War of 1812, Zelizer said. Theres been moments of violence in the capital, such as in 1954 when Puerto Rican nationalist shot at members and in 1998 there was another incident, but this is a wholly different issue. This was about a mob instigated and incited by the president ,and many Republicans, storming Congress and trying to stop the Constitutional process of finishing a presidential election and this is something we have never seen.

Professor Zelizer says he is concerned about the scarring that this event will now have on America and the further divides it will create.

I don't think this is going away anytime soon, he said, adding that while the president didn't create the disillusionment in the country, he did stoke it. Their anger will not diminish any time soon, nor will the worldview that's been shaped by the last four years.

The U.S. history expert says he is now worried about the future of this countys democracy, saying theres no threat as direct as a group of rioters in the Capitol Building.

He notes that future historians won't just see this event as an isolated event, either.

"They think they're not only going to see the roots in the Trump presidency that have been taking form for a while, they're going to be more cognizant of changes in the Republican Party that have been taking place since the 1980s, he explains.

Zelizer says he thinks removing the president using the 25th Amendment is absolutely appropriate in this type of situation saying, This is the kind of situation that it's made for.

Hear the full conversation with Princeton University professor Julian Zelizer in this weeks 880 In Depth Podcast. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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This week on The Local Take, we're talking about the African American community, health disparities, and why we are hesitant to trust the medical community with our care. Not because of what they say, but because of what they do. I reached out to two doctors. Dr. Jayne Morgan from the Association of Black Cardiologists and Dr. Thaddeus Bell, founder of Closing the Gap in Healthcare. We discuss the historical disparities that have impacted our community.

A Few Historical Notes:

1813 -1883 J. Marion Simms - Father of Modern Obstetrics- experimented on enslaved Black women.

1906- WEB Du BoispublishedThe Health and Physique of the Negro Americanand spoke of healthcare being a human right.

1932 - 1972 Tuskegee Experiment

1951 HeLa Cells:Henrietta Lack the basis for most medical research. She and her family have never been sufficiently compensated for the use of her body tissue by scientists around the world.

2013 - 2017 The Maternal Mortality Rate - Georgia's maternal death rate of 66.3 per 100,000 live births is worst than in some developing countries.

Dr. Jayne Morgan spoke about the overt and unconscious bias that many physicians bring to their practice in the healthcare community. She spoke about the stereotypes that exist. We speak about Dr. Sheila Moore of Indianapolis who was refused pain killers while dying from COVID19. She posted videos to social media speaking about the racism that prevented her from being treated with humanity.

Dr. Thaddeus Bell spoke about the 400 year history of being abused and shortchanged by healthcare professionals.

Dr. Morgan spoke about clinical trials being the future of medicine and our community is often not included. She spoke about clinical trials covering all of the costs for participation in cutting edge medicine. She says that no major medical advancement exists without clinical trials.

Dr. Bells shares that while the behaviour of doctors is a challenge. Culturally our community is not aware of health literacy. Some of us don't know how to take care of ourselves.

They both spoke to the need of more African American healthcare professionals not just doctors, but therapists, technicians, administrators and even social workers.

The American Bar Association reports that Black Patients receive older, cheaper and more conservative treatments regardless of class, health behaviors, co-morbidities and access to health insurance and health care services.

How are we supposed to survive in a healthcare system that isn't set up to treat us with respect and equity? We have to advocate for ourselves and family members. We also have to follow doctor's directions as opposed to old wives tales.

Kiplyn Primus talks about health disparities with Dr. Jayne Morgan and Dr. Thaddeus Bell on WCLK's The Local Take.

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The President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity reflects on the significance of the new Italian translation of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, which was agreed in 1999, saying a new commitment emerges on the journey of ecumenical dialogue.

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We cannot undo the history of division, but it can become part of our history of reconciliation, says Cardinal Kurt Koch, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. He was speaking a few days after the publication of a revised Italian translation of the "Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification" (JDDJ).

The JDDJ is a key text in the dialogue between Catholics and Lutherans, and is seen as an important step towards overcoming the fundamental point of division between the Church and the Lutheran ecclesial community, namely, the question of salvation. Signed in 1999, representatives of the Methodist, Anglican, and Reformed Churches later embraced the document.

Twenty years on from the initial agreement, a new Italian translation was announced was announced by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the Lutheran World Federation on 3 January 2021 - the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's excommunication by the Church. The excommunication of Luther remains a painful wound, Cardinal Koch says, and yet one on which is now grafted a firm will to continue, guided by the Gospel, along the path of reconciliation.

In an interview with Vatican News, Cardinal Koch explains the significance of the new Italian translation of the JDDJ.

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Q: Your Eminence, on 3 January 2021, the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the Lutheran World Federation published an updated Italian translation of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (JDDJ). What is the specific importance of this Declaration?

Cardinal Koch: The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification of 1999 represents an important step on the path of CatholicLutheran reconciliation. The crucial question of Christian existence of how one arrives at salvation and remains in salvation had given rise to bitter controversies in the 16th century that eventually led to division in the Church.

After centuries of confessional controversies, in 1999, Catholics and Lutherans were able to confess together, in a differentiated consensus: By grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works (JDDJ, 15).

Q: The version just published contains other texts translated into Italian for the first time. Can you explain this?

Cardinal Koch: The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification of 1999 was originally a bilateral document, the fruit of CatholicLutheran dialogue. Providentially, it was later received multilaterally. The World Methodist Council, the Anglican Communion and the World Communion of Reformed Churches also adhered.

In 2019, not only representatives of the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation, but also representatives of the other three world Communions just mentioned also gathered at the University of Notre Dame in North America, reiterating their shared ecumenical commitment for the future. All the related texts can now be found in the new publication. For us, it was important to deepen an understanding of this special witness of ecumenical reconciliation in the Catholic, Italianspeaking world.

Q: Differently to the other translations, the Italian version also has an ecumenical foreword signed by you together with the Secretary General of the Lutheran World Federation, Reverend Martin Junge. Why was 3 January 2021 chosen as the date of publication?

Cardinal Koch: The date of 3 January 2021 marked the 500th anniversary of the excommunication of Martin Luther by Pope LeoX. This event continues to represent a painful wound in the history of CatholicLutheran division. The condemnation of Martin Luther of the Pope, defined as AntiChrist, also similarly contributed to mutual alienation.

The Lutheran World Federation and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity faced the challenge of clarifying, from the ecumenical point of view, the historical, theological and canonical questions relating to the excommunication of Martin Luther. This task has been entrusted for some time to an ecumenical group of experts. We trust that in the near future it will be possible to issue a Joint Message.

Without anticipating the final outcome, it was important for Reverend Junge and myself to demonstrate, through the publication of this Italian version on the 500th anniversary of the excommunication of Martin Luther, our firm intention to continue the journey of reconciliation under the guidance of the Gospel.

Q: YourEminence, what further steps towards CatholicLutheran reconciliation do you have in mind?

Cardinal Koch: In 2030 we will celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession. The Confessio Augustana is now part of the Lutheran confessions; in 1530 it was the last attempt, sadly unsuccessful, to impede the imminent division of the Church.

The Augsburg Confession has an ecumenical potential that Catholics and Lutherans could rediscover. Taking this opportunity could be a promising task for the near future.

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CHICAGO, IL - JUNE 15: Corey Crawford #50 of the Chicago Blackhawks celebrates by hoisting the Stanley Cup after defeating the Tampa Bay Lightning by a score of 2-0 in Game Six to win the 2015 NHL Stanley Cup Final at the United Center on June 15, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

The Chicago Blackhawks have been lucky to draft and develop some all-time great players during the 21st century. They have had studly skaters like Patrick Kane, Jonathan Toews, Duncan Keith, and Brent Seabrook but Corey Crawford was just as important in goal. He wasnt the goaltender for the cores first cup in 2010 but he was a huge part of it in 2013 and 2015. They were also a wildly successful team during those years in between but fell just short. Without elite goaltending, it is impossible to have sustained success.

On Saturday morning, Corey Crawford retired from the National Hockey League. During the offseason, he signed a two-year deal with the New Jersey Devils after the Blackhawks let him go. He never played a game with New Jersey and only participated in a few practices. He had missed the last few practices leading up to his retirement due to personal reasons. Hopefully, everything is okay with him and his family.

Crawford is one of the best players in the history of the Blackhawks. He was never the number one best goalie in the league but he was the most consistent elite goalie. He won the Stanley Cup twice and the Jennings Trophy twice. He has also had three top-ten finishes for the Vezina Trophy as the best goalie in the league.

He finishes his career with 488 regular-season games and 96 playoff games over 13 seasons with Chicago. His final regular-season numbers are very nice as he had a 2.45 goals-against average and a .918 save percentage. He was 260-162-53 in his career as a starter. There is no doubt that it was a great career and the Hawks were lucky to have him.

All good things come to an end and that was the case with his Blackhawks tenure. The Hawks weirdly wanted to see what they have in the younger guys and Crawford left. It would have been nice to see him play for the Devils where his hero, Martin Brodeur, played but it just isnt going to be the case.

It will be interesting to see if he ever gets consideration for the Hall of Fame but the Blackhawks need to honor him in every way possible. They need to retire his number, give him one last skate, and all of the things teams do for their all-time greats. He was as important to their success as any player over a long period of time. He deserves respect from everyone in the Chicago sports fandom because he helped bring hockey to the forefront in a city that was starving for a winner.

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There isnt much room for debate at the top spot. On the scale of important home runs, they dont get much bigger than a season-saving walk-off blast in the National League Championship Series, which eventually led the Padres to their first pennant. But after Steve Garveys obvious No. 1 on

There isnt much room for debate at the top spot. On the scale of important home runs, they dont get much bigger than a season-saving walk-off blast in the National League Championship Series, which eventually led the Padres to their first pennant.

But after Steve Garveys obvious No. 1 on the list, there are countless options for other home runs to be included among the Padres most meaningful and memorable. Heres one take on the five biggest home runs in franchise history:

5) Slam Diego is bornDate: Padres at Rangers, Aug. 17, 2020Matchup: Fernando Tatis Jr. vs. Juan NicasioThe situation: Bases loaded, two outs, Padres lead 10-3

Tatis hit quite a few important home runs in 2020 as the Padres reached their first postseason in 14 years. He hit two during San Diego's epic comeback against St. Louis in Game 2 of the NL Wild Card Series. But years from now, the dinger that will be best remembered is the one that gave birth to Slam Diego and made a national star out of Tatis.

Hed been given the take sign on a 3-0 pitch, missed it, and swung anyway. His ferocious opposite-field slam rekindled a debate about the sports unwritten rules -- the very rules Tatis has helped to shatter.

It also sent the Padres on an unprecedented grand slam streak. After salamis from Wil Myers, Manny Machado and Eric Hosmer the next three nights, the Padres became the first team in Major League history to hit a grand slam in four consecutive games.

4) Vaughn reaches a milestoneDate: Padres at D-backs, Sept. 27, 1998Matchup: Greg Vaughn vs. Aaron SmallThe situation: On the final day of the regular season, Vaughn needs one home run to be the first in club history to hit 50

Entering the 1998 season, Ken Caminiti held the Padres franchise record with 40 homers. Vaughn shattered it. Still, after breaking Caminitis mark on Aug. 22, Vaughn sat one homer shy of 50 on the season's final day.

The Padres had fallen into a funk after clinching the NL West title earlier that month. But in a tie game at Arizona, Vaughn snapped them out of it with one swing. His 50th homer was a game-winning blast in the eighth inning, earning the Padres their franchise-record 98th win. The visitors dugout erupted, and several Padres have since marked that moment as a turning point in the teams run to the 98 pennant. A few days later, Vaughn went deep again in Game 1 of the NL Division Series against Houstons Randy Johnson in a similarly memorable moment in franchise history.

3) Caminiti makes a statementDate: Padres at Braves, Oct. 7, 1998Matchup: Ken Caminiti vs. Kerry LigtenbergThe situation: Game 1 of the NLCS, score tied at 2 with one out in the top of the 10th

The Padres-Braves matchup in the 1998 NLCS still registers as one of the most high-quality playoff series of all-time, considering the talent on both sides. The Padres had won 98 games, yet opened the series on the road against the 106-win Braves. After a tightly contested Game 1, the Padres snatched home-field advantage thanks to Caminiti. His 10th-inning blast to straightaway center field sent the Padres to a 3-2 win, and it would prove critical in their 4-2 series victory.

2) Gwynn's moment in the BronxDate: Padres at Yankees, Oct. 17, 1998Matchup: Tony Gwynn vs. David WellsThe situation: Game 1 of the World Series, score tied at 2 with two outs in the top of the fifth inning

The 1998 World Series is a largely forgettable one for Padres fans. (Game 1 in particular, for reasons that probably don't need to be rehashed here.) Despite the loss, there aren't many moments in franchise history that bring a smile quite like this one:

In a tie game, Gwynn clobbers an inside fastball from Wells off the facing of the upper deck in right field. Yankee Stadium goes silent. Gwynn trots around the bases as the Padres dugout goes nuts. No, Gwynn never got that elusive ring. But he finished as a .371 hitter across two World Series -- with this home run as his signature Fall Classic moment.

1) Garvey leads Padres to first pennantDate: Cubs at Padres, Oct. 6, 1984Matchup: Steve Garvey vs. Lee SmithThe situation: Game 4 of the best-of-five NLCS, Cubs lead the series 2-1 with the score tied at 5 in the bottom of the ninth

It's hard to top this moment for drama. Searching for their first NL pennant, the Padres were clinging to their playoff lives in Game 4, having already surrendered a late lead to the Cubs.

Smith, a future Hall of Fame closer, was on the mound for Chicago. After a one-out single by Tony Gwynn, Garvey unloaded on a high fastball sending it out to right-center field and sending Jack Murphy Stadium into a frenzy. Few would argue with Garvey's homer as the most memorable singular moment in franchise history. A day later, the Padres secured their first trip to the World Series, where they would lose in five games to the Tigers.

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The 2017 Heisman Trophy winner led the Sooners to two College Football Playoff appearances (in 2015 and 2017). He was one of three Oklahoma quarterbacks to have done so in the seven years of the CFP format.

All three of the most recent Sooner quarterbacks two Heisman Trophy winners and a Heisman runner-up started in the NFL this season. But Mayfield has now done something that his two successors at Oklahoma have not. In fact, no former Oklahoma quarterback has ever started an NFL playoff game.

When Mayfield and the Cleveland Browns take the field Sunday night at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, the former Sooner will be the first Oklahoma player of any era to finish his college career at Oklahoma and start in a playoff game in the NFL.

It is necessary to make that distinction because NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman actually began his college career at OU, before transferring to UCLA after the 1985 season. Aikman not only played in NFL playoff games, but won 11 of them. He had an 11-4 record in the NFL playoffs, playing 12 seasons with the Dallas Cowboys.

Both Mayfield and Kyler Murray, the No. 1 signal caller for the Arizona Cardinals, were No. 1 overall NFL picks in successive years (2018 and 2019), and Jalen Hurts, who followed Murray in the starting role at Oklahoma, was drafted in the second round by the Philadelphia Eagles in the 2020 NFL Draft.

Murray and Hurts came close to joining Mayfield as part of OU history. Arizona and Philadelphia were both in playoff contention this year until late in the season.

While it has taken Mayfield three seasons to find his way to the NFL playoffs, the absence has been much longer for the Browns franchise. Cleveland is making its first playoff appearance since the 2002 season.

Cleveland, which was the laughing stock of the NFL for a number of seasons before Mayfield was selected with the No. 1 NFL Draft pick, has compiled a record of 24-22 since Mayfield assumed the quarterback duties. In the 46 games before that, the Browns were a dismal 3-42-1.

The Browns finished 11-5 this season with Mayfield at quarterback.

To be clear, there have been other Oklahoma quarterbacks who have started games in the NFL, but none, other than Aikman and now Mayfield, have ever made it to an NFL postseason.

Another former Sooner Heisman Trophy winner and No. 1 overall NFL pick, Sam Bradford, made 83 NFL starts with four different teams over eight seasons (2010 to 2018), but never made it to the NFL playoffs.

Landry Jones started five games for the Pittsburgh Steelers between 2015 and 2017. He was 3-2 in those contests, but not in the playoffs.

Research by sports columnist Berry Tramel of The Oklahoman revealed several other Oklahoma players who started games at quarterback in the NFL, but never saw action in an NFL championship or postseason game.

Hugh McCullough started six games in 1939 for the Pittsburgh Pirates (the team changed its name to the Steelers in 1940) and seven games the following season for the Chicago Cardinals. Neither team made the postseason.

Beryl Clark was a teammate of McCulloughs with the Chicago Cardinals in 1940. He started three games that season. That team was the only one in NFL history that featured two quarterbacks, both of whom played collegiately at Oklahoma.

In seven seasons, from 1942-49, with the Cleveland Rams, Washington Redskins and Green Bay Packers, John Jacobs started 23 games as an NFL quarterback, but not in the postseason.

Mayfield now has another Sooner first in mind: becoming the only former OU quarterback (other than Aikman) to win an NFL playoff game.

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2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Government Accountability Office. For the past century, the independent, non-partisan congressional watchdog has been overseeing how the federal government operates and spends its moneypointing out where it is doing well and where it can improve. Over the years, GAO has made thousands of recommendations based on facts to improve services and save taxpayers billions of dollars.

Formerly known as the General Accounting Office, the agency has become a trusted, non-partisan advisor to Congress, a proud defender of public interest, and a leading advocate for better government. From cybersecurity to social security, missiles to Medicaid, and foreign policy to public health policy and the global pandemic, GAO works to hold government programs accountable to all Americans.

As the agency celebrates its 100th anniversary, Comptroller General of the United States Gene Dodaro shares an overview of the agencys legacy.

Our history at a glance

The Budget and Accounting Act created GAO in 1921 when Congress realized the need to control growing government expenditures and debt after World War I. Until the end of World War II, GAO primarily checked the legality and adequacy of government expenditures.

After World War II, as government responsibilities and programs grew, so did GAO. The focus of our work shifted toward helping Congress monitor executive branch agencies programs and spending.

In 1974, Congress broadened GAO's evaluation role and gave us greater responsibility in the budget process. This was when we started to recruit scientists, actuaries, and experts in fields such as health care, public policy, and computers.

In 1986, we assembled a team of professional investigators, many with law enforcement backgrounds, to look into allegations of possible criminal and civil misconduct.

During the last 20 years, weve strived to improve accountability by alerting policymakers and the public to emerging problems throughout government.

In 2004, GAO's legal name changed from the General Accounting Office to the Government Accountability Office. The change reflected the agencys expanding role in a growing federal government. Moving beyond financial audits, GAO began conducting performance auditsexamining how government programs were performing and whether they were meeting their objectives.

Today, our agency that once checked millions of government vouchers has become a multidisciplinary organization equipped to handle Congresss toughest audit and evaluation assignments.

We have looked at contemporary issues like opioid addiction, the gig economy, affordable housing, and food safety. The agency has also established a new science and technology team to meet Congress growing need for information on cutting edge issues like artificial intelligence and infectious disease modeling. Most recently, GAO has been evaluating the largest response to a national emergency in US history, the $2.6 trillion COIVD-19 response legislation, and making recommendations about how to improve its effectiveness in dealing with public health issues and the economy.

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