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Policy Letter
POGO Letter To NIH Director: Medical Researchers Should Be Made To Publicly Disclose Possible Conflicts Of Interest
POGO has sent a letter to Dr. Francis Collins, the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), urging him to implement an idea he recently said he supported: a public database listing any financial arrangements.
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter To NIH Director Francis Collins Urges Public Disclosure of Medical Researchers’ Financial Ties To Industry
In an interview about six months ago you supported the idea of a database in which NIH grantees’ financial arrangements with outside organizations would be made public. We are writing to urge that you act forcefully on the implementation of this idea.
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Policy Letter
POGO Joins Letter Calling on Congress to Investigate Whether Federal Records Act Needs Strengthening
The undersigned organizations concerned with government openness and accountability respectfully request that you hold hearings on the apparent destruction of e-mails in the Department of Justice to determine how the e-mails could be missing despite the requirements of the Fed...
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Analysis
New Report on Financial Regulatory Reform Highlights Derivatives Loopholes
Last week, the Roosevelt Institute hosted a conference on financial regulatory reform with a star-studded panel of experts including Joseph Stiglitz, Simon Johnson, and Elizabeth Warren, among others. The conference coincided with the release of the Institute’s new report, Mak...
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Analysis
Judge’s Ruling Helps FINRA Keep Its Records Behind Closed Doors
As described in our latest podcast, POGO sent a letter to Congress last week calling for increased oversight of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), a self-regulatory organization (SRO) that oversees thousands of securities broker-dealers, and is supposed to be...
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to Senate Committees Regarding DCAA Reforms
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) applauds the fact that your committees have conducted oversight of the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA). However, POGO is concerned that some of the reforms being implemented at DCAA as a result of your investigations are only sup...
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Policy Letter
POGO joins letter to President Obama urging needed contractor reforms
We are writing to thank you for your ongoing efforts to curb waste, fraud and abuse in federal contracting -- including your recent memorandum cracking down on contractor tax scofflaws --and urge you to continue making needed contracting reforms.
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to Congress Calling For Increased Oversight of Financial Self-Regulators
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is writing to raise concerns that Congress’s efforts to reform the financial regulatory system have not adequately addressed the failures of the private self-regulatory organizations (SROs) that are tasked with protecting the investin...
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Policy Letter
POGO joins letter to Committee on Homeland Security on over-classification
We are writing to convey our support of your amendment to require the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community to prepare a report on over-classification.
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to NRC Recommending Additional Changes to Alternative Dispute Resolution Program
I am writing to follow up to my remarks at the Commission briefing on NRC Allegation and Enforcement Program Initiatives on January 19, 2010, regarding the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) program.
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Analysis
A Dozen Nonpartisan Good Government Fixes Congress Should Implement in 2010
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is submitting to Congress a number of actions it should take that would fix many of the systemic problems that have long plagued the federal government and that spurred POGO’s creation 29 years ago. POGO submitted a similar list to Co...
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Policy Letter
POGO’s Letter to Congress With A Dozen Nonpartisan Good Government Fixes To Implement in 2010
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is submitting to Congress a number of actions it should take that would fix many of the systemic problems that have long plagued the federal government and that spurred POGO’s creation 29 years ago. POGO submitted a similar list to Co...