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Anti-Transparency Provisions Removed From Farm Bill
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Court to Consider Secret Regulation of Wall Street
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Podcast: Exploring Transparency for Oil and Gas Extraction
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Game-Changing DATA Act Clears the House
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Farm Bill Debate: Corporate Privacy or Public’s Right to Know
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Shutdown Cost DoD $600 Million
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Report Examines Obama and the Press
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Haiti Recovery Cloaked in Secrecy
October 9, 2013
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December 6, 2013
Court to Consider Secret Regulation of Wall Street
The public has a right to know how the government polices the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), an industry-funded self-regulatory group, according to an amicus brief filed this week by POGO and its allies.
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Topics: Financial Sector
December 5, 2013
Contractors Receive Huge Raise on Same Day Income Inequality Discussed
The White House raised the contractor compensation cap to nearly $1 million. That amount doesn't signify how much contractor can be paid; it only signifies how much will come from U.S. taxpayers. POGO supports efforts to significantly reduce the taxpayers'
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Topics: Contract Oversight
December 4, 2013
POGO Testifies on Rights of National Security Employees
POGO's Angela Canterbury testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee about a devastating court decision that stripped federal employees in national security sensitive positions of their right to appeal an adverse per
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Topics: Whistleblower Protections
December 4, 2013
Podcast: Exploring Transparency for Oil and Gas Extraction
In this podcast, POGO’s Mia Steinle talks about POGO's involvement in EITI and the hurdles the initiative faces in its goal of increased royalty transparency for oil, gas and hard rock minerals.
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Topics: Energy and Natural Resources
November 27, 2013
SEC Delays Revolving Door Restriction
Months ago, bowing to concern about regulators who leave government and then work their former colleagues on behalf of industry, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it was tightening restrictions on the revolving door. But a notice published in Monday’s edition of the Federal Register said that the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) was withdrawing the new rule at “the request of the SEC” so that the agency could have more time to “effectively educate affected employees before the exemption revocation takes effect.”
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Topics: Financial Sector
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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.
