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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 Supplementing Letter to Eric Shipley, Cost Accounting Standards Board Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on “Accounting for the Costs of Post-Retirement Benefit Plans (PRBs) Sponsored by Government Contractors.”
This letter supplements the Project on Government Oversight's (POGO's) comment letter to the Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) Board of December 18, 2000 concerning the CAS Board's Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on "Accounting for the Costs of Post-Retirement...
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Policy Letter
Letter to President-Elect Bush
Our organizations are writing to express dismay and alarm at the Environmental Protection Agency's recent treatment of its National Hazardous Waste and Superfund Ombudsman Office
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Testimony
Comments on the “Draft Guidance for the National Hazardous Waste and Superfund Ombudsman and Regional Superfund Ombudsmen Program”
These comments are respectfully submitted by the Project On Government Oversight (POGO). POGO is a non-partisan non-profit organization that, since 1981, has worked to investigate, expose, and remedy abuses of power, mismanagement, and subservience to special interests by the ...
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Report
Will We Ever Fly Before We Buy? F-22 Doesn’t Meet Basic Testing Criteria
The Pentagon is rushing to begin production of the F-22 fighter without first meeting all testing requirements imposed by Congress. This report exposes the plan to recommend releasing $2.1 billion for 10 F-22 fighters even though the aircraft has not met as many as five out of...
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Public Comment
POGO Letter to Eric Shipley, Project Director, Cost Accounting Standards Board Regarding Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on “Accounting for the Costs of Post-Retirement Benefit Plans (PRBs) Sponsored by Government Contractors”
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) Board's Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on "Accounting for the Costs of Post-Retirement Benefit Plans (PRBs) Sponsored by Government Contractors".
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Policy Letter
Cost Accounting Standards Board, Dr. Rein Abel, Regarding Accounting for the Cost of Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)
Cost Accounting Standards Board, Dr. Rein Abel, Regarding Accounting for the Cost of Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)
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Testimony
Written Testimony For the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Hearing Regarding S. 1763, the Ombudsman Reauthorization Act of 1999
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is a non-partisan non-profit organization that, since 1981, has worked to investigate, expose, and remedy abuses of power, mismanagement, and subservience to special interests by the federal government. POGO's goal is to improve the w...
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Public Comment
POGO Letter to Rudolph Schuhbauer, CAS Board Regarding Proposed “Review” of CAS and its Role in the Government Contracting Process
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) Board's proposed "review: of CAS and its role in the government contracting process. POGO is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that has, for almost 20 years, investigated, exposed and work...
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Policy Letter
Public Interest Groups Oppose Oil & Gas Royalties In Kind Amendment
We are writing to express our opposition to the Oil and Gas Royalties in Kind (RIK) amendment to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act.
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Public Comment
POGO Comments on Responsible Contractor “Anti-Scofflaw” Federal Regulations
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) case 1999-010.
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Analysis
F-22 to Exceed Congressional Production Cost Cap
A report released last week by the General Accounting Office (GAO) states that estimates by both the Air Force and the Defense Department put the costs of producing the F-22 "Raptor" above spending caps enacted by Congress.
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Report
The F-22 Program: Fact Versus Fiction
A report criticizing the F-22 aircraft by legendary aircraft designer and retired Air Force Col. Everest E. Riccioni