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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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Report
Aerosols Give Big Business and Public Big Boom: Where is the Protection in the EPA?
The EPA is ignoring its own experts, as well as fire officials who are concerned about the potential dangers of explosions and/or fires caused by routine usage or storage of consumer aerosol products. Instead, the EPA is responding to pressure from the manufacturers of these p...
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Survey of Defense Contractor Signatories of the “Position Paper: Reform of the Federal Civil False Claims Act”
The Project on Government Oversight is a non-partisan, non-profit organization that, for over fourteen years, has investigated and exposed waste and fraud in government spending. Our goal is to change the way the government works by revealing examples of systemic problems and...
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Policy Letter
POGO letter to DOE Secretary Hazel O’Leary concerning recent visit by DOE IG
Please stop the Department of Energy's pursuit of these whistleblowers.
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Policy Letter
POGO letter to President Clinton regarding cost over runs of Superconducting Super Collider
If tax dollars are going to be allocated to this project, the taxpayers' interests must be protected, and our money must not be squandered.
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Report
The Superconducting Super Collider’s Super Excesses
Superconducting Super Collider's Super Excesses
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High Tech Weapons In Desert Storm: Hype or Reality?
It has been almost one year since the Iraqi army invaded Kuwait and prompted Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. The war and its aftermath have led to Americans' pervasive belief that success was mainly attributable to U.S. high-tech weapons.
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Cleaning Up Nuclear Waste: Why is DOE Five Years Behind and Billions Over Budget?
The Department of Energy has spent billions on cleanup efforts which failed because the agency did not fully test a key technology. The French, by contrast, are way ahead of the US. because they have not only fully tested this key technology, but have implemented the process. ...
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Analysis
U.S. Military Reform After Operation Desert Storm - Testimony by John Boyd
C-span video coverage of a hearing where John Boyd testified in front of the House Committee Armed Services
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Report
The Army’s M1 Tank: Has It Lived Up To Expectations?
The Project On Government Procurement has tracked the progress of the M1 tank since our founding in 1980. Because our observations on M1 tank performance have often been called, inaccurate, incomplete or out-of-date, we have released new Army M1 data to the public as it has b...
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Officer Inflation: Its Cost To The Taxpayer And To Military Effectiveness
A resource from POGO.org
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Defense Procurement Information Papers - Campaign ‘84
Among the most pressing issues of the 1984 election campaign is the mounting budget deficit. The enormity of the projected shortfall --$200 billion--will be at the heart of the national debate about the future course of this country's tax and spending policies.