The Government Accountability Office "said yesterday that they will investigate whether the Department of Health and Human Services [3] violated that law by awarding a $21,500 contract to commentator and marriage advocate Maggie Gallagher [4]." The GAO is currently looking into the legality of similar payments from the Department of Education [5] to pundit Armstrong Williams [6]. Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg [7], who requested the GAO inquiry along with Senator Kennedy [8], said "the Bush propaganda mill [9] has violated the trust of the American people."