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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 Supports Proposal to Make Certain Labor Relations Costs Unallowable
...In this vein, POGO strongly supports the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking under FAR case 2009-006, Labor Relations Costs, published at 75 Fed. Reg. 19345 (April 14, 2010). This long-overdue proposed rule amends FAR Subpart 31.205-21 to make unallowable contractor costs incurre...
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Policy Letter
POGO letter to NIH Director Collins: Ethics reform at NIH needs a more ethical leader
We ask that you arrange for Dr. Thomas Insel to step down as a leader of the NIH's effort to change its current rules on financial conflicts of interest. As we understand it, he is scheduled to remain in this position until the final rule is announced, which is likely to be se...
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Policy Letter
Bipartisan Coalition Urges Congress to Preserve Provision to Make FAPIIS Public
We, the undersigned organizations, write to express our support for S. Amendment 4280 in the Senate-passed version of H.R. 4899, the Supplemental Disaster Relief and Summer Jobs Act of 2010.
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Analysis
Budget Nightmare at the Pentagon
An extremely broad right-left coalition may be forming to bring real change to the Pentagon. Such change is not coming otherwise, explains Straus Military Reform Project Director Winslow Wheeler.
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to Congressional Conferees Calling for Accountability and Transparency in Financial Regulatory Reform Legislation
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) offers the following recommendations to ensure that the final financial regulatory reform legislation incorporates the strongest features of the bills passed by the House (H.R. 4173, “The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act...
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Policy Letter
Groups Urge Financial Regulatory Conferees to Ensure Public Access to Disclosures on Financial Fraud
We, the undersigned organizations, urge you to ensure that the final version of the financial reform legislation does not unnecessarily limit public access to critical information about financial fraud or harm whistleblowers.
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Public Comment
POGO Advocates for Additional Protections When Considering Work Performed by Government or Contractor Employees
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) provides the following public comment to the Office of Federal Procurement Policy’s (OFPP) “Proposed Policy Letter” clarifying work reserved for performance by federal government employees. 75 Fed. Reg. 16188 (March 31, 2010). POGO is...
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Analysis
Gates, Congress, and Obama: Mutually Assured Debacle
The Huffington Post, find a new commentary by Winslow Wheeler on the unhappy direction now being taken in the debate over the Pentagon budget: mutually exclusive, short-term thinking is reinforcing all the worst in our "business-as-usual" approach.
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Policy Letter
POGO Requests Information on Suspensions and Debarments
Founded in 1981, the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) investigates and exposes corruption and other misconduct in order to achieve a more accountable federal government. POGO has a keen interest in government contracting matters, especially matters related to the suspens...
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Policy Letter
POGO Supports Eshoo Amendment For Better Oversight Of The Intelligence Community
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) urges you to vote in favor of the amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill now under consideration that would require the Director of National Intelligence to comply with Government Accountability Office (GAO) audits of the intelli...
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Policy Letter
POGO joins letter to President Obama urging continued public access to monitoring of Gulf oil spill
We are writing to you in the midst of what may well be the worst environmental disaster in the history of the United States to urge that you give the public access to all monitoring data related to the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, including past, present and future videos o...
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Analysis
Small Business Advocate Scores Another Victory for Transparency
Every once in a while, POGO likes to remind everyone that the American Small Business League (ASBL) is still out there fighting the good government fight, kicking butt and taking names—or, in this particular case, FOIA-ing names.