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Policy Letter
POGO Joins Letter Urging For More Transparency In Trade Negotiations
As organizations dedicated to government openness, scientific integrity and accountability, we are writing to urge you to increase the transparency of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiating process. Currently, without any public access to ev...
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Policy Letter
POGO Joins Letter Challenge CIA Secrecy
We the undersigned would like to call to your attention an alarming regulation that the Central Intelligence Agency entered into the Federal Register on 23 September 2011. Finalized without any notice for public comment, this regulation could cut off access to the most effecti...
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Policy Letter
POGO Calls for Hearings on Afghanistan Allegations from Whistleblower Lt. Col. Daniel Davis
We write you to request the attention of your committees to the recent disclosures by Army Lieutenant Colonel Daniel L. Davis regarding the situation in Afghanistan—which appear to vary greatly from the statements to Congress by senior military officials. As the U.S. commits a...
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Policy Letter
POGO and Partners Say Cybersecurity Bill is Flawed
On behalf of the undersigned organizations concerned with government openness and accountability, we are writing to let you know of our serious concerns with sections of S.2105, the Cybersecurity Act of 2012, that create unnecessary, overbroad and unwise limitations to access ...
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Policy Letter
POGO and Partners Support STOCK Act
Last week, the Senate passed the bipartisan “Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge” (STOCK) Act by an overwhelming vote of 96 to 3. Reform groups strongly supported this legislation.
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Policy Letter
POGO and Partners Support STOCK Act, Issue Letter to House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor
Enclosed is a letter our organizations have sent to all House Members expressing our strong support for voting on and passing the Senate-passed STOCK Act and sending it immediately to President Obama for his signature.
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Policy Letter
POGO to Panetta: U.S. Taxpayers Shouldn’t Bear the Cost of B61 Bombs Deployed in Europe
The cost for extending the lives of the 200 B61 nuclear bombs deployed and stored in Europe has increased from $1.6 billion to $2.1 billion in less than a year. In light of the program’s cost, the questionable military efficacy of the deployment of these bombs, and the securit...
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Policy Letter
POGO and Allies Call on Pentagon to Serve Public Interest, Not Secrecy
We, the undersigned nonprofit organizations, are deeply concerned about a recent letter regarding the treatment of information related to the water contamination at U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune from the Department of the Navy (DON) to Agency for Toxic Substances and Dis...
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Policy Letter
POGO and Allies Call for Unredacted Camp Lejeune Water Contamination Report
We, the undersigned nonprofit organizations, are deeply concerned about a recent letter regarding the treatment of information related to the water contamination at U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune from the Department of the Navy (DON) to Agency for Toxic Substances and Dis...
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter: FDA Advisors on Yaz and Yasmin Have Industry Ties
Since its creation thirty years ago, the Project On Government Oversight (POGO), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, has identified instances of financial conflicts of interest in the federal government and successfully pressed to correct them. We recently learned of indust...
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Policy Letter
POGO urges DOE to strengthen scientific integrity policies
In fiscal year (FY) 2011, $10.2 billion was appropriated, and nearly $13 billion was requested for FY 2012, for DOE research and development and related programs at 17 national laboratories and for extramural research elsewhere. In fact, DOE funds most of its science through ...
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Policy Letter
Groups Oppose Legislation to Gut SEC and CFTC Whistleblower Programs
On behalf of the undersigned organizations, we are writing to express our opposition to the "Whistleblower Improvement Act of 2011" (H.R. 2483), scheduled for markup on December 13, 2011, before the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises...