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U.S. Comptroller General David Walker, head of the General Accounting Office, speaks at a National Press Club in Washington, D.C.  Walker was appointed in 1998 to a 15-year term as head of Congress' investigative arm.  He stepped into the public limelight last year when he took the extraordinary step of suing the White House over its refusal to release records of Vice President Dick Cheney's energy policy task force.  He discusses the nation's fiscal gap in the face of the spiraling costs of entitlement programs, national defense and other federal initiatives.

David Walker at the National Press Club

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