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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
Groups Call for Congress to Restore Funding to Technology Experts
POGO joins government accountability groups in urging Congress to restore funding to the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). OTA's expertise will be useful as Congress considers national security and telecommunications policy.
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Policy Letter
POGO Calls for Acting Chief of Defense Nuclear Security to be Replaced
Steve Asher, is the Acting Chief of Defense Nuclear Security but his most recent job was as a Target manger in Spokane, WA. Before that he was the Group Commander at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana where cheating on launch readiness tests was extensive, a culture that the ...
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Policy Letter
Open Government Advocates Call for Release of Report on Post-9/11 CIA
POGO joins other open government groups in calling on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to release its recent report on the CIA's post-9/11 rendition, detention, and interrogation program.
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Policy Letter
POGO and Open Gov Advocates Support Reforms to Freedom of Information Act
POGO joins other open government groups in calling for the House of Representatives to pass H.R. 1211, the FOIA Oversight and Implementation Act of 2014.
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Policy Letter
Groups Call for Vote on Transparency Measure
POGO joins open government groups in supporting a vote on the Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act. The bill would require online publication of reports mandated by Congress.
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Policy Letter
Good Government Groups Encourage Accountability in Federal Grant-Making
POGO joins transparency groups in supporting the GRANT Act, which would require new transparency in federal grants and cooperative agreements. Provisions we strongly support include uniform standards for grant proposals and an online portal for all grant information.
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Policy Letter
Transparency Groups Call on President Obama to Support DATA Act
POGO joins other transparency groups in asking President Obama to support the current draft of the DATA Act -- a bipartisan effort to reform financial transparency on a federal level. Leaked OMB language includes changes to the bill that would seriously undermine the reforms. ...
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Policy Letter
Transparency Groups Urge Congress to Pass Current Draft of DATA Act
Leaked OMB language threatens to seriously weaken the DATA Act, a bill that reforms federal financial transparency. Transparency groups, including POGO, call on Congress to uphold the current draft of the bill.
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Policy Letter
An Open Letter to Appropriators in Congress: End the Budget Gimmicks and Cut the Pentagon’s Slush Fund
POGO joins a transpartisan group of organizations in calling for an end to the use of Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account as a slush fund to avoid sequestration cuts to the Pentagon budget.
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Policy Letter
Transparency Groups Call for New Reporting on Presidential Library Fundraising
POGO joins groups in supporting the Presidential Library Donation Reform Act and asking House leadership to bring the bill to a vote. The bill would introduce transparency measures for presidential library fundraising.
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Policy Letter
Groups Call for Increased Transparency in Rulemaking
POGO joins Public Citizen and other open government groups in calling for a change at the Office of the Federal Register that would require that standards incorporated in proposed and final rules be available for free on the Internet.
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Policy Letter
Groups Thank Representatives Cummings and Waxman for Supporting Transparency in Farm Bill
POGO and other transparency groups thank Representatives Elijah Cummings and Henry Waxman for defending open government in a letter opposing secrecy provisions to the Farm Bill. The provisions were defeated in the final bill.