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Policy Letter
POGO and Partners Urge Leadership to Restore Faster FOIA to Boehner
On behalf of the undersigned organizations concerned with government openness and accountability, we are writing to urge you to restore the bipartisan Faster FOIA provisions in S. 627, now known as the Budget Control Act of 2011.
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to FDA Commissioner Hamburg Concerning the Potentially Dangerous Interaction of the Drugs Seroquel and Methodone
The Project On Government Oversight is a nonpartisan independent watchdog that champions good government reforms. We take a keen interest in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which receives around $4 billion a year in federal taxpayer dollars to regulate aspects of ...
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to OMB Director Jacob Lew Regarding Proposed NIH Rule on Financial Arrangements between Researchers and Industry
An intrusion by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) may be about to undermine the integrity of medical research supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). A new rule proposed by NIH will increase transparency in the financial arrangements of NIH funded researc...
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Policy Letter
POGO’s Letter to President Obama on Bioethics Commission Chair’s Ghostwriting Practices
We write to you regarding the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues which advises you on bioethics and works to promote ethical behavior in research, healthcare, and technological innovation. On November 24, 2009, you named Dr. Amy Gutmann, President of th...
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Policy Letter
POGO Urges Improved Public Access to Central Contractor Registration Database
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is an independent nonprofit organization committed to achieving a more accountable and transparent federal government. As an organization that heavily depends on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to perform its watchdog role, POGO...
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Policy Letter
House Oversight Committee Should Commemorate the 45th Anniversary of FOIA by Passing the Faster FOIA Act
In recognition of the upcoming 45th anniversary on July 4th of the signing of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the undersigned organizations write to ask that you support and move forward the Faster FOIA Act, which would establish the Commission on Freedom of Information...
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Policy Letter
POGO Joins Groups in Supporting the DATA Act
We, the undersigned organizations, are writing to express our support for efforts to improve federal financial transparency. Chairman Issa, Senator Warner, and President Obama deserve praise for their leadership in building upon the successes of USASpending.gov and the Recover...
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Policy Letter
Groups Urge Congess to Save Open Gov Websites
On behalf of the undersigned organizations and individuals, we are writing to urge you to restore funding to the Electronic Government Fund, which provides critical support for the construction of a more transparent and efficient government and serves as a building block for p...
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Policy Letter
Groups Oppose Measures to Repeal Dodd-Frank Financial Reform and Weaken Consumer Protection Agency
We are writing because we strongly oppose amendments to the Economic Development Revitalization Act, S. 782, to gut the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) (#391, Moran) or repeal the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act altogether (#394, DeMint).
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Policy Letter
POGO letter to Attorney General Eric Holder Requesting an Investigation of Possible Unlawful Foreign Funding of Members of Congress
A letter filed in an ongoing civil case in U.S. District Court raises serious concerns that the Republic of Kazakhstan may have unlawfully financed sitting members of Congress. Purportedly a letter from the Kazakh ambassador in Washington, DC, to the President of Kazakhstan, t...
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Policy Letter
POGO and Partners Urge the House to Vote No on Amash Amendment to FOIA at DHS
As organizations dedicated to openness and accountability, we have serious concerns about an amendment to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations bill offered by Representative Justin Amash (R-MI) that would ban the use of funds for any action by a political a...
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Policy Letter
POGO Joins Groups Calling for Public Access to Complaint Database at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
We the undersigned consumer, civil rights, good government, and community groups, and members of Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) are writing to express our firm belief that consumers need access to a public complaint database that will provide them with the tools to make ...