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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 Letter to President Obama Regarding Systemic Safety Issues at Los Alamos National Lab
We are writing with additional information related to our December 14, 2009, letter regarding the Department of Energy’s (DOE) oversight of the nuclear weapons labs
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Policy Letter
POGO joins sign-on letter encouraging the Administration to improve its open government efforts
As advocates for government openness, we support the Administration’s efforts to provide the public with access to information through Data.gov. We are eager to work with you to ensure the success of Data.gov and, in that spirit, write to raise our concerns with the datasets s...
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Public Comment
POGO Comments on the Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Y-12 National Security Complex and the Uranium Processing Facility (UPF)
POGO believes that this Y-12 Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS) process is flawed and a bit presumptuous, because the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) decision to take action on the Uranium Processing Facility (UPF) comes before the 2010 Nuclear ...
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Policy Letter
List of Groups Supporting Comprehensive Whistleblower Rights Grows
The undersigned organizations and corporations write to support the completion of the landmark, nine-year legislative effort to restore credible whistleblower rights for government employees. We offer our support to expeditiously pass legislation that includes the critical ref...
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Policy Letter
POGO Urges President to Enhance Oversight
We applaud the progress you’ve made in the first year of your Administration through the Open Government Directive and the ethics pledge and revolving door ban for your appointees. Your memorandums on government contracting, the acquisition system, and service contractors est...
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Policy Letter
POGO Joins An Open Letter to the United States House of Representatives: Support the Health Care Transparency Resolution!
On behalf of an ideologically diverse coalition of millions of Americans, we write to strongly urge that you sign the discharge petition for H. Res. 847. Introduced by Representative Vern Buchanan (R-FL), this petition would force a vote on a bipartisan “Sunshine Resolution” t...
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Policy Letter
Contractor Conflict of Interest Rule Needs Improvement
... POGO has a keen interest in government contracting matters, especially matters related to acquisition and conflicts of interest. The proposed rule provides enhanced measures to identify and prevent personal conflicts of interest when contractor employees are performing acq...
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Policy Letter
POGO Concerned With Self-Policing Import Programs
In our efforts to further this mission, we want to bring to your attention two troubling self-policing programs—the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) and Importer Self-Assessment (ISA) programs—administered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) within ...
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro Regarding Loopholes in Proposed Rule to Increase Transparency for Troubled Assets
One of the many challenges on the path to a full economic recovery is the ongoing confusion and uncertainty over the appropriate value of troubled assets such as mortgage-backed securities.
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AnalysisQuick Look Analysis of 2010 Defense Department Appropriations Conference Report: Porkers Engaging in Usual Tricks
Thanks to a head's up from Taxpayers for Common Sense, I have taken a quick look at the just now available 2010 DOD Appropriations Conference Report. Remember: this is the bill with the final say on the money; it overrides any money amounts in the DOD Authorization bill, now ...
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Testimony
Testimony of POGO’s Scott Amey on “Acquisition Deficiencies at the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs”
POGO is concerned with the government's acceptance of limited competition in contracting as well as its over-reliance on cost-reimbursement, time and material contracts, and commercial item contracts.
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro Regarding the SEC’s Failure to Act on Hundreds of Inspector General Recommendations
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is writing to raise concerns that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been sluggish in acting on a wide range of recommendations issued by the SEC Office of Inspector General (OIG) since David Kotz took office in December...