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The U.S. Department of the Treasury ___ (create) by an Act of Congress on Sept. 2, 1789. The Congress ___ (direct) the Treasury to provide for the collection, safeguarding, and disbursement of public money, and to maintain a system to account for the government's collections and payments. The Register of the Treasury originally ___ (carry out) the account-keeping functions. Individual departments and independent agencies ___ (conduct) most functions without Treasury oversight. By modern standards, the administration of federal finances ___ (be) extremely loose, but then the federal government ___ (be) much smaller than it ___ (be) today, and its duties ___ (be) far more limited. The first major federal financial management reform ___ (take place) just after World War I. In late 1919, Treasury Secretary Carter Glass ___ (create) the forerunners of the current fiscal operations bureaus, FMS and the Bureau of Public Debt, by approving the positions of the Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits and the Commissioner of the Public Debt. The officials appointed to these positions ___ (oversee) the various organizations that ___ (comprise) the new Bureau of Accounts and Deposits (later renamed the Bureau of Accounts) and the Bureau of the Public Debt.
Although the predecessors of today's Fiscal Service organizations ___ (establish) in 1919, most federal payment functions ___ (remain) decentralized until 1933. That year, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ___ (issue) an executive order mandating the transfer of the Executive Departments' clerks to the newly established Division.
In June 1940, Congress ___ (approve) a reorganization plan that ___ (create) the Treasury Department's Fiscal Service and a career Fiscal Assistant Secretary position. Under the plan, the Fiscal Service ___ (assign) three components: the Bureau of Accounts, the Bureau of the Public Debt, and the Office of the Treasurer of the United States.
A new era ___ (begin) in January 1974 when a Fiscal Service reorganization plan ___ (establish) the Bureau of Government Financial Operations (BGFO) and ___ (merge) all of the Bureau of Accounts' functions under the new bureau.
Since 1984, FMS ___ (do) its utmost to perform the role of the government's central financial manager. FMS ___ (strive) to continually improve the government's performance by managing the financial infrastructure in support of federal agencies. The Service ___ (employ) many advanced technologies that ___ (be) either in their infancy or non-existent as recently as when BGFO ___ (establish). FMS ___ (continue) to improve its products and services through initiatives such as Electronic Funds Transfer, the Treasury Offset Program, the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System, and various electronic commerce initiatives. FMS ___ (be) proud of the progress it ___ (make) and ___ (look forward) to the future, confident that it ___ (continue) to make many positive contributions to both government financial management and the American financial services industry.
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