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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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Testimony
Testimony of POGO’s Scott Amey on Deficient Contractor Accountability Leaves Agencies and Taxpayers at Risk
POGO's testimony about the issue of contractor accountability, and about how past performance information and the suspension and debarment process can be used to improve contingency operations in reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Policy Letter
POGO Joins Letter to President Obama Urging Adequate Funding for Nuclear Threat Reduction and Nonproliferation
We strongly urge you to make every effort to ensure that threat reduction and nonproliferation programs are funded at your requested FY 2011 levels in the next continuing resolution (CR) or omnibus appropriations bill.
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Public Comment
Commercial Item Exceptions Must be Eliminated From New Suspension and Debarment Rule
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) provides the following public comment to FAR Case 2009-036, “Federal Acquisition Regulation; Uniform Suspension and Debarment Requirement” (75 Fed. Reg. 77739, December 13, 2010). The Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defens...
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Public Comment
POGO’s Public Comment Regarding the CFTC’s Whistleblower Award Program
POGO's public Comment
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Analysis
Senator Pushes DCAA To Complete More Incurred Cost Audits
Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) prodded the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) to finish more incurred cost audits and decrease its backlog at the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Subcommittee on Contract Oversight hearing on Tuesday.
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Testimony
Testimony of POGO’s Nick Schwellenbach on “Improving Federal Contract Auditing”
We believe that there should be an independent Federal Contract Audit Agency (FCAA), as long as it is done right. Auditing of federal contracts is an important step in protecting taxpayers' interests and fighting government waste, fraud and abuse.
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Analysis
Don’t Let Review of Classified Information Safeguards Infringe on Rights
POGO and other good government advocates are urging the Office of Management and Budget to be careful about infringing upon the constitutional rights of employees as it moves forward with a review of procedures to safeguard classified information.
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Analysis
It’s O-Fish-al: POGO Thinks Past Performance Information Should be Made Public
GAO reveals past performance information about a contractor—the kind of information DoD has refused to turn over to POGO.
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Report
POGO’s Reform Agenda: A Good Government Guide For The 112th Congress
For the past 30 years, the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) has championed good government reforms as a nonpartisan, independent watchdog. Implementing the following recommendations will help put the country on the right track to a more effective, accountable, open, and ...
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to White House Regarding Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Size
POGO has a keen interest in addressing the failures of oversight that led to the BP oil disaster, and ensuring accountability in the response to this offshore oil spill, the largest in our nation’s history. This spill has caused enormous economic problems in the Gulf states an...
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Analysis
What the Pentagon’s Top Tester Said About the F-35B
Two weeks ago, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced that the Marine Corps’ version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is in trouble. While “two of the JSF variants, the Air Force version and the Navy’s carrier based version, are proceeding satisfactorily,” Gates said, “by...
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Analysis
New Report Shows Some IRS Contractors Are Not Paying Their Taxes
Consider the double threat posed by a contractor that owes taxes: First, it deprives Uncle Sam of needed revenue. As of 2007, the Government Accountability Office estimated that contractors owed over $7 billion in federal taxes. Second, a mounting delinquent tax liability can ...