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Congressional Oversight
Related Resources (government documents and letters)
POGO Files
POGO Letter to Speaker-Elect Boehner urging creation of an Investigations Subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations
December 6, 2010
Don't Be Afraid of the Congressional Oversight Bogeyman
November 9, 2010
Insider Trading in the Halls of Congress?
October 28, 2010
POGO's Letter to Congress With A Dozen Nonpartisan Good Government Fixes To Implement in 2010
February 16, 2010
POGO Delivers A Dozen Good Government Fixes to Congress
February 16, 2010
POGO Provides Oversight Handbook To Congress And Hill Staff To Encourage Increased Oversight
July 31, 2009
POGO Letter to Rep. Tanner supporting change to House rules requiring periodic hearings on waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement
January 13, 2009
POGO Endorses H. Res. 40 Calling for Periodic Oversight Hearings
January 13, 2009
POGO Releases Its “Bakers Dozen” of Issues for Congress 2007
January 5, 2007
Related Resources
POGO in the News
Repeal of contractor tax withholding is sign of economic times, With POGO's Scott Amey, FederalNewsRadio.com, October 28, 2011
Watching the watchdog: Cummings grows into oversight role, John Fritze, The Baltimore Sun, June 11, 2011
Report dings Congress on workplace safety, By Erika Lovley, Politico, February 14, 2011
Congressional Budget Cuts: A Dog and Pony Show -- and Damaging to Oversight, By POGO's Paul D. Thacker, Politics Daily, January 20, 2011
Defense industry says Sen. Lieberman will be ‘hard to replace’, By John T. Bennett, The Hill, January 20, 2011
Issa targets 'broken bureaucracy', By Gregory Korte, USA Today, January 3, 2011
Institutional anemia cripples congressional oversight, By Dan Froomkin, Nieman Watchdog Blog, May 5, 2010
New book seeks to train Hill oversight watchdogs, By Max Cacas, Federal News Radio, August 12, 2009
How to Do Congressional Oversight, By Nick Baumann, Mother Jones, July 27, 2009
Legal Experts Debate Congressional Authority Over Executive Power, By Learned Foote , Talk Radio News Service, July 16, 2009
Former GOP Congressmen Accuse Republicans Of Putting Party Above Constitution, By Sam Stein, Huffington Post, July 16, 2009
Outrageous: We're Done with Greed, By Michael Crowley, Readers Digest, May 1, 2009
Missouri senator tackles government fraud, By Bill Lambrecht, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Washington Bureau, April 22, 2009
Collins set to testify today before war contracts panel, By Dieter Bradbury, Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal, February 2, 2009
GOP Leaders Waive Subcommittee Term Limit For Rogers, By Chris Strohm, Congress Daily, January 8, 2009
Issa moving to create house Republican investigative unit, By Dan Friedman, CongressDaily, December 17, 2008
Lieberman Fighting to Retain Control, By Jason Leopold, The Public Record, November 12, 2008
Lieberman's oversight activities have watchdogs howling, By Dan Friedman, CongressDaily, July 15, 2008
Fledgling, Non-Integrated Department Needs a Lot of Looking After, Says POGO Director, by Rob Margetta, CQ Homeland Security, March 31, 2008
Testify Before Congress, Meals Not Included; Did the government buy Roger Clemens a plane ticket? , By Chris Wilson, Slate, February 6, 2008
Members of Congress also wait on FOIA requests, by Daniel Friedman, Congress Daily, November 13, 2007
Oversight Chiefs Differ in Style and Agendas, By Martin Kady II, CQ Weekly, May 8, 2007
New majority party compiles a mixed record in Congress, By Dale Eisman, Virginia Pilot, April 15, 2007
Congress girds up for return to oversight: Probes include alleged contracting abuses in Iraq and the alteration of scientific findings, By Gail Russell Chaddock, Christian Science Monitor, April 12, 2007
Oversight panel ready to dig into U.S. waste, fraud, by Julia Malone, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 5, 2007
Project on Government Oversight's Baker's Dozen, By Thomas D. Williams, Truthout, January 12, 2007
Watchdog group urges Congress to attack contractor misconduct, By Jenny Mandel, GovExec.com, January 5, 2007
Gov't Watchdogs Under Attack From Bosses, Larry Margasak, Washington Post, December 27, 2006
The Story of 'O', By Lisa Hoffman, Capitol Hill Blue, December 22, 2006
IT at the core of many GAO oversight areas, By Mary Mosquera, Government Computer News, December 11, 2006
Homeland, Sweet Homeland, By Patrick Yoest, CQ Weekly, November 22, 2006
Massachusetts Dem seeks defense oversight subpanel chairmanship, By Megan Scully, GovExec.com, November 20, 2006
Dingell's impending return as chairman evokes memories of his inquiring past, By Bill Loveless, Inside Energy, November 13, 2006
A Hill full of hard looks: Iraq will top 110th agenda, By David Nather, CQ Weekly, November 11, 2006
An official secrets act might keep Congress in the dark: Legislation aimed at criminalizing the disclosure of classified information is a threat not only to whistle blowers and the press but to Congress’s exercise of its own oversight function as well, By Nick Schwellenbach, Nieman Watchdog, August 25, 2006
Congress reduces its oversight role; Since Clinton, a change in focus, By Susan Milligan, Boston Globe, November 20, 2005
