The Project on Government Oversight

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Impact

POGO's work is unique in that our goal is not only to expose corruption and other types of misconduct within the federal government, but also to propose solutions and work toward their implementation.  We evaluate our impact by looking at whether or not policy reforms or spending cuts have been implemented as a result of our investigations.  

In 2008, POGO played a significant role in:

• Passing a law to create a database based on POGO's Federal Contractor Misconduct Database;
  
  
• Revealing that Air Force generals' spending of millions of taxpayer dollars to fly in custom-built 'Comfort Capsules' while our troops fly in seats barely bolted to the floor;
  
  
• Ousting U.S. Special Counsel Scott Bloch, who was a bane to whistleblowers throughout the federal government;
  
  
• Exposing the government's failure to collect royalties from oil and gas companies drilling on federal land, and revealing the industry's pervasive influence on the Department of the Interior's Royalty-In-Kind program;
  
  
• Convincing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to finally pass a strong rule to limit security guard overtime at nuclear power plants; and
  
  
• Uncovering that the Defense Department's Inspector General does not have the resources it needs to audit half of the Pentagon's weapons contractors. 

Click on the links below to learn more about our accomplishments from previous years:

2007 Accomplishments

2006 Accomplishments

2005 Accomplishments

2004 Accomplishments

2003 Accomplishments