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POGO’s experts push policymakers to enact commonsense reforms that tackle waste, corruption, and abuse of power; hold those who’ve violated the public trust accountable; protect our constitutional rights; and make the government work for all people.
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Policy Letter
POGO and Over 40 Government Transparency Organizations Write to the President about Improving FOIA
The undersigned organizations, concerned with government openness and accountability, are writing to ask you to bring renewed attention to issues that continue to plague government-wide implementation, compliance, and enforcement of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
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Analysis
A Stampede of Hysterics
The Pentagon seems ready to implement the cuts mandated by law in the most destructive, negative way possible, which has the convenient effect -- for them -- of pushing Congress and the White House to cough up more money.
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Analysis
How Many Federal Workers Know Their Rights?
Most federal agencies have have not received whistleblower certification from the Office of Special Counsel, suggesting that too many would-be whistleblowers don't know their rights under the law.
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AnalysisAre the Joint Chiefs of Staff as Broken as Congress?
The Joint Chiefs of Staff testified to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees this week arguing that unless their budgets are augmented with still more money they will hollow out the armed forces.
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Analysis
Pentagon Pork Is Too Easy to Push Through Congress
It’s getting easier to find people inside Washington’s Beltway who want to cut the fat from the Pentagon budget. Scaling back military spending isn’t just for the most progressive members of Congress anymore.
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Analysis
Starving on a Feast of Money
Today's heavily pre-scripted budget protection ploy enacted by the Pentagon's civilian and military leadership at the Senate Armed Services Committee, and again tomorrow at the House Armed Services Committee, is in the face of the Pentagon's own budget history.
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Report
Dangerous Liaisons: Revolving Door at SEC Creates Risk of Regulatory Capture
A revolving door blurs the lines between one of the nation’s most important regulatory agencies and the interests it regulates. Former employees of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) routinely help corporations try to influence SEC rulemaking, counter the agency’s in...
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Analysis
The $360 Billion Gorilla in the Sequestration Debate
There’s a $360 billion gorilla in the sequestration debate – Pentagon contractors.
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AnalysisCol. Macgregor on the Need for New Military Leadership
Given the morally and mentally bankrupt performance of the nation's military leaders in recent weeks over the prospect of a 7% readjustment of the defense budget back to its 2006/2007 levels, Col. Doug Macgregor's new piece at Battleland is a breath of fresh air.
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Analysis
Troops to Get Smaller Raise Than Last Year Under New Proposal
The Pentagon is planning to increase the pay for members of the uniformed military by 1 percent for 2014, down from the 1.7 percent increase for 2013, according to an article in Government Executive.
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Analysis
POGO Joins Natural Resources Extraction Transparency Initiative
POGO Executive Director Danielle Brian will join a federal advisory committee that aims to ensure that the government and taxpayers are getting their fair share of revenues from natural resources that come from public lands.
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Policy Letter
POGO and Taxpayers for Common Sense Ask President to Cut MOX
The Project On Government Oversight and Taxpayers for Common Sense wrote to President Obama urging him to cut funding to the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility (MOX) because it's a program that is over budget, over schedule, and lacking even a single customer.