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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 Supports the Premise of “Release to All,” But Raises Concerns
POGO has a longstanding interest in the Freedom of Information Act and the proactive disclosure of government records. POGO supports the premise of “Release to All,” but has two concerns. The first relates to the proposed “Good Cause” exceptions, and the second relates to the ...
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Policy Letter
POGO and Bipartisan Ethics Experts in New Letter to Trump: Divest Now to Prevent Ongoing Conflicts
A group of bipartisan experts urge President-elect Donald Trump to immediately divest his businesses and place the assets and investments into a genuine blind trust.
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Policy Letter
Groups Urge President-Elect Trump to Place his Business Assets and Investments into a Genuine Blind Trust
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) today joined more than a dozen ethics officials and good government groups to send a letter to President-Elect Donald Trump urging him to set up a genuine blind trust, or the equivalent, for all of his business assets and investments.
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Policy Letter
POGO Opposes Latest Commercial Item Rule that will Lead to Bad Deals
POGO opposes the Defense Department's latest attempt to alter "commercial item" contracting processes, which were imposed by Congress. Recent defense authorization laws expanded the buying of military-only items, limit DoD’s access to contractor cost or pricing infor...
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Policy Letter
Congress: Amend House Rules on Congressional Fellows
POGO and five other non-governmental organizations sent a letter to Members of the House to urge them to consider amending House Rules to require fellows in Congressional offices who are paid by a third party to disclose the source and rate of their compensation.
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Policy Letter
POGO Joins 24 Groups in Urging House to Promote New System to Identify Contractors and Publish Beneficial Ownership Information
Many U.S. states rank among the easiest places in the world to form companies without revealing the identity of the people who ultimately own and control them. Anonymously-owned companies present national security threats, lower quality infrastructure and services, higher pric...
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Policy Letter
POGO Joins Push for an Ethical Presidential Transition
POGO joins a letter to both presidential candidates, Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump, urging them to commit to ethical and transparent transition teams.
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Policy Letter
POGO Asks the House to Strengthen Congressional Oversight of the Intelligence Community
We believe Congress must renew its commitment to provide a meaningful check on the executive branch and reform how it conducts oversight over intelligence matters. The time for modernization is now.
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Policy Letter
POGO Asks DHS to Pause Procurement of Private Detention Centers
Earlier today, POGO Executive Director Danielle Brian sent a letter to DHS Secretary Johnson commending him for opening a review of DHS's use of private immigration detention centers and urging him to freeze the contracting process on new private centers pending the findings o...
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Policy Letter
Transparency Improvements within Existing Rulemakings
POGO and Taxpayers for Common Sense urge that the new rules for extracting on federal lands include robust transparency provisions to improve the existing system of disclosure.
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Policy Letter
Congress: Protect FOIA from the Pentagon
Thirty-nine organizations across the political spectrum demand Congress protect FOIA from the Department of Defense's latest attempt to carve itself out from sharing government records.
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Policy Letter
NDAA Conferees, Strengthen Military Whistleblower Protections
POGO joins broad coalition to ask the FY 2017 NDAA conferees to maintain the military whisltbelower protections included in both the House and Senate NDAA bills.