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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
Open Letter to the House of Representatives on the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2016
As you consider the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (H.R. 1735) , we urge you to carefully consider how the limited taxpayer resources can be best allocated to protect our national security
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Policy Letter
POGO and Taxpayers for Common Sense Ask House to Cut MOX
Project On Government Oversight teamed up with Taxpayers for Common Sense to urge House members to cut funding to the wasteful Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility.
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Policy Letter
POGO Supports Legal Justice for Servicemembers Act
Broad coalition of whistleblower protection organizations join their voices together to support the Legal Justice for Servicemembers Act, which will further the effort to create credible whistleblower protection rights for members of the Armed Forces.
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Policy Letter
Open NDAA Campaign Back in Full Swing with Letter to SASC
This year's Senate Armed Services Committee announced a meeting to discuss, among other things, whether they will open the debate and markup of this year's National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), legislation that authorized over half a trillion dollars in spending last year.
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Policy Letter
POGO Adds its Voice to Calls for Secret Law Oversight
Sixty organizations, businesses, and whistleblowers joined together to call for an end to mass surveillance, increase oversight, provide whistleblower protections, and haul secret law into the sunshine.
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Policy Letter
Whistleblower Watchdogs Ask President to Remove Zinser
Organizations concerned with whistleblower protections ask the President to remove Department of Commerce's Inspector General, Todd Zinser, due to his shady treatment of whistleblowers.
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Policy Letter
Broad Reauthorization of the Patriot Act? No Thanks
The blanket reauthorization of the Patriot Act is not okay with this broad group of organizations, POGO joins in to urge Congress to reform bulk collection and increase FISA court transparency.
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Policy Letter
POGO and GAP Support Allowing Contractor and Grantee Disclosures to Office of Special Counsel
POGO and GAP supports the Office of special Counsel proposed rule to allow current and former federal contractors to submit whistleblowing disclosures to challenge illegality, gross waste, gross mismanagement, abuse of authority, or a substantial and specific danger to public ...
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Policy Letter
Watchdogs Ask State Dept To Force Clinton To Turn Over Emails
POGO joined in a bipartisan letter asking the State Department to force Clinton to hand over her emails in electronic form so they are easily accessible by FOIA and to avoid setting a dangerous precedent.
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Policy Letter
POGO Joins in Asking White House for Open Government Action
During Sunshine Week, the week that we celebrate the open government initiatives and progress of the government, over 20 bipartisan organizations ask the Obama Administration to demonstrate a commitment to more transparent government.
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Policy Letter
Groups Urge Obama to Issue Executive Order to Promote Transparency in Government Contracting
Six years into your presidency, and five years after the Supreme Court issued its tragically misguided ruling in Citizens United v. FEC, we’re now living in a Wild West campaign spending world.
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Policy Letter
Hold Post Accountable for His Chilling Statement
Last month the vice commander of the Air Force's Air Combat Command, Major General James Post, said that pilots that spoke to Congress about the capabilities of the A-10 were committing treason. These comments are unacceptable and a violation of service members constitutional ...