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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 asks President Obama to instruct the DOE’s NNSA to reverse its decision to withdraw contractor performance data from public view
POGO asks President Obama to instruct the Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to reverse its decision to withdraw contractor performance data, Performance Evaluation Plans (PEPs) and Performance Evaluation Reports, (PERs) from public view.
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Analysis
The Magna Carta for Transparency? POGO explores the White House Open Government Directive memo
The White House today released its long-awaited Open Government Directive (OGD), a memo that requires agencies in the executive branch to take new initiatives towards a more transparent and collaborative government. Accompanying the directives are a set of guiding principles ...
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Policy Letter
POGO Urges Pentagon To Create Strong Regulations Against Conflicts of Interest On Systems Engineering
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) would like to applaud you for your commitment to improving weapon systems acquisition at the Department of Defense. Consistent with this commitment, we urge you to write and enforce regulations outlined in the Weapons Systems Acquisit...
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Policy Letter
POGO OpposesLloophole in Derivatives Overhaul Legislation
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is writing to you today to express our strong objection to Chairman Peterson’s amendment to the Peterson Substitute for H.R. 3795, the Over-the-Counter Derivatives Markets Act of 2009.
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Analysis
Will the House Stand Up for Greater Bailout Transparency?
Amid the whirlwind of debate about how to improve the financial regulatory system, the House Financial Services Committee is considering several measures this week that could have a huge impact on the transparency of the government’s bailout programs under the Troubled Asset R...
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Policy Letter
POGO letter to Energy Sec. Chu regarding LANL plutonium facility shutdown due to repeat of fire suppression system failures
We were shocked to learn that Los Alamos National Laboratory's Plutonium Facility (PF-4) once again had to stop its main operations because of the inadequacy of its fire suppression system—only three and a half years after a complete overhaul of that system was paid for by the...
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to IG Council Chair Fong on Integrity and Efficiency, Clarifying POGO’s Recommendation on IG Hotline
POGO letter to IG Council Chair Fong on integrity and efficiency, clarifying POGO's recommendation that the intake function of an IG's hotline should not be staffed by contractors .
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Policy Letter
POGO letter to Secretary Sebelius: Use emergency powers to support study on prevention of deaths from H1N1 flu
The Project On Government Oversight is dedicated to achieving a more effective, accountable, open, and ethical federal government. In articles and in communications with you and your predecessor as DHHS Secretary during the past 20 months, we have expressed concern about the l...
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Public Comment
POGO raises concerns about new contractor database
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) provides the following public comment to FAR Case 2008-027—"Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System." (74 Fed. Reg. 45579 (September 3, 2009)), as amended on October 5, 2009 (74 Fed. Reg. 51112). POGO is...
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Policy Letter
POGO joins coalition letter calling for transparency of health care advisory panel
Our organizations represent a diverse group of patient, labor, consumer, public interest, scientific integrity, taxpayer, journalism, and transparency advocates. Although our groups have varied agendas, we all recognize that the pending health care bill has enormous consequenc...
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Policy Letter
POGO asks Secretary Sebelius to disclose mistakes that led to vaccine shortage
The vaccine shortage may be an inevitable result of DHHS's mistakes of the past. Those mistakes should be disclosed so they won't be repeated. The lack of disclosure is a problem that is easy and inexpensive to fix.
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Analysis
IG Investigation Spurred by POGO Found Former NRC Commissioner Merrifield Violated Ethics Laws
After raising concerns more than two years ago, POGO has just received hundreds of pages of internal documents, which are a part of a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Inspector General investigation, that outline how recently departed Commissioner Jeffrey Merrifield disrega...