comptroller
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The securities industry is generating record tax revenue for New York, increasing the city’s and state’s vulnerability to a downturn, the state comptroller warns.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
Even a former U.S. comptroller of the currency agrees.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
The president continues to nominate the comptroller general, who is chosen for a 15-year term from a list of three candidates proposed by a bipartisan commission of congressional leaders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Brad Lander, New York City’s former comptroller and city councilman who recently won the Democratic primary against incumbent U.S.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
The original word, controller, is more likely to be used in business, and the fancier one, comptroller, in government.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
In a private ceremony before the inauguration, Lierman handed Franchot the first of her “challenge coins,” an engraved memento Maryland’s comptrollers have given out for decades.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2023
On the plus side, the committee of two current and two former state and New York City comptrollers attached some important strings to lawmakers’ first pay raise in 20 years.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 19, 2018
Those will be filled in and hammered out later by the Office of Management and Budget, the comptrollers of the various departments, and the relevant committees in Congress.
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2017
It also includes signatures from treasurers or comptrollers from Rhode Island, South Carolina and Washington, D.C.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2015
A letter addressed to the comptrollers and other customs officers had informed them that their services would be discontinued after January 5th, 1855.
From Wilmot and Tilley by James Hannay
