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Bipartisan Letter Calls for Reducing the Pentagon Budget
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March 19, 2012
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December 19, 2013
By Mia Steinle
U.S. Submits Transparency Plan for International Approval
The U.S. candidacy application to the Extractive Industries
Transparency Initiative has been submitted, which means the public is one step closer to understanding how the extractive industries impact their communities, the environment, and the economy.
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Topics: Energy and Natural Resources
December 18, 2013
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Office of Special Counsel Releases Report Confirming Misconduct by Then-Agency Head Scott Bloch
Nearly a decade after the infamous tenure of then-Special Counsel Scott Bloch, we finally have a public record validating the concerns the Project On Government Oversight and others had been raising since 2005.
Topics: Government Accountability, Whistleblower Protections
December 17, 2013
Budget Deal Takes Pressure Off Pentagon to Cut Waste
The bipartisan budget agreement will take the pressure off the Pentagon when they were finally beginning to make difficult but necessary choices to rein in the out-of-control defense budget, according to an op-ed by Ethan Rosenkranz.
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Topics: National Security
December 17, 2013
By Neil Gordon
Ebenezer Scrooge Should Not Be a Federal Contractor
New reports by a watchdog group and Congress show why Scrooge-like companies should not be doing business with the federal government.
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Topics: Contract Oversight
December 16, 2013
DoD’s Workforce Cost Formula Stirs Debate
The Defense Department’s methodology for comparing workforce costs has created a stir. Advocates for government workers and advocates for the contractors are fighting about necessary improvements, but facts and data should prevail, not myths.
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Topics: Contract Oversight
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Podcast: Exploring Transparency for Oil and Gas Extraction
Mia Steinle talks about POGO's involvement in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and the hurdles to increased transparency for oil, gas and hard rock minerals here in the U.S.
