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Information Access
Related Resources (government documents and letters)
POGO Files
New Law Paves the Way for Public Review of Contractor Data
August 4, 2010
POGO Demands Comprehensive Contract Disclosure
July 12, 2010
Contract Spending: Escaping the Dark Ages
May 20, 2010
POGO Joins Coalition Support For Public Information Being Available Online, Calls for Hearings on the Public Online Information Act
March 16, 2010
POGO Joins Letter Calling on Congress to Investigate Whether Federal Records Act Needs Strengthening
March 10, 2010
POGO Applauds White House Ethics Waiver Decision
September 4, 2009
POGO Updates FOIA Resources Page
August 26, 2009
POGO joins coaliton calling for Senators to allow public access of CRS reports S.R. 118 would allow Senators to officially provide public Internet access to all non-confidential Congressional Research Service (CRS) products, some of the best research conducted by the federal government. Making the full catalog of non-confidential reports readily available over the Internet will make access easier and help produce a better-informed electorate. This resolution is an inexpensive and simple way to improve our democracy.
May 14, 2009
When Public Information Goes Private
May 1, 2008
Congressional Research Service Products: Taxpayers Should Have Easy Access $81 million of tax-payer money funded the Congressional Research Service (CRS) in FY 2002. CRS authors products at the request of current Members of Congress, many of whom become lobbyists, but CRS products are made difficult if not impossible for the public to access. CRS also operates both the CRS website and the Legislative Information System (LIS) website, which are arguably the best sources of information regarding the legislative process of the United States. However, they are not available to the public in any form. To prevent public access to its websites, CRS has erected a firewall which redirects non-Congressional inquiries to the public THOMAS site which is not as comprehensive. POGO champions open government and recommends that CRS products be made more accessible to the citizenry.
February 10, 2003
Public Access to Congressional Research Service Products
February 10, 2003
Related Resources
Open Government Advocates Urge the Senate to Improve Public Access to CRS Reports
Open the Government.org,
May 14, 2009
POGO in the News
Contractor performance data to become public, By Tom Spoth, Federal Times.com, August 6, 2010
New law puts contractor performance in the public spotlight, By Matthew Weigelt, Washington Technology, August 5, 2010
New law requires OMB to post information on contractors, By Aliya Sternstein, Nextgov; Technology And The Business Of Government, August 4, 2010
USAspending.gov makeover leaves room for improvement, By Emily Long, NextGov: Technology and the Business of Government, May 24, 2010
Federal acquisition councils anticipate mandate to increase transparency, By Robert Brodsky, Government Executive, GovExec.com, May 13, 2010
Cerberus to acquire DynCorp for $1 billion, By Kyle Peterson in Chicago, Andrea Shalal-Esa in Washington, and Steve Eder and Elinor Comlay in New York. Editing by Lisa Von Ahn, Robert MacMillan and Tim Dobbyn, Reuters, April 12, 2010
New Legislation Would Require Government Data to Be Available Online, By Allen McDuffee, Truthout.org, March 18, 2010
Exclusive-Firms run by President Abbas's sons get US contracts, By Adam Entous, Reuters-UK, April 22, 2009
Department of beams in the eye, By Meredith Wadman, Nature, October 23, 2008
NIH Scolded Employee For Flagging Conflicts, By Ed Silverman, Pharmalot, October 22, 2008
NIH Punished Scientist Who Had Called for Open Records, By Richard Monastersky, The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 22, 2008
White House Threatens to Veto Bill to Modernize Presidential Records Act, By Jason Leopold, The Public Record, July 10, 2008
Swiss bank drops suit against Wikileaks site, By Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, March 6, 2008
Judges Injunction Dissolved, WikiLeaks.org Domain Returned, By DrewWilson, Zero Paid, March 1, 2008
Judge: Wikileaks gets its domain name back, By Declan McCullagh, CNET, February 29, 2008
Judge to decide whether block on Wikileaks breaches free speech, By Jonathan Richards, Times Online, February 29, 2008
WikiLeaks Wins Back Its Domain, , CMP TechWeb, February 29, 2008
Bank defends gag on whistle-blower website, , Sydney Morning Herald, February 29, 2008
Rights groups seek court OK to intervene in Wikileaks case , By Jaikumar Vijayan, Computerworld, February 28, 2008
UPDATE 1-Swiss bank Baer defends Web site shutdown, By Thomas Atkins, Reuters News, February 28, 2008
ACLU, EFF Jump into Wikileaks Case, By Paul Kiel, TPM Muckraker, February 27, 2008
EFF, ACLU Move to Intervene in Wikileaks Case, , Kansas City InfoZine , February 27, 2008
Wikileaks gets legal help after domain name deletion, By Declan McCullagh, CNET, February 27, 2008
Heavy legal guns ask judge to reverse Wikileaks shutdown, By John Timmer, Ars Technica, February 27, 2008
Media Organizations Back Wikileaks in Court, By David Ardia, Idea Lab, February 27, 2008
Citizens can mine valuable ore, By Robert Landauer, The Oregonian, July 8, 2003
