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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 Joins Letter to President Obama Urging Adequate Funding for Nuclear Threat Reduction and Nonproliferation
We strongly urge you to make every effort to ensure that threat reduction and nonproliferation programs are funded at your requested FY 2011 levels in the next continuing resolution (CR) or omnibus appropriations bill.
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to White House Regarding Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Size
POGO has a keen interest in addressing the failures of oversight that led to the BP oil disaster, and ensuring accountability in the response to this offshore oil spill, the largest in our nation’s history. This spill has caused enormous economic problems in the Gulf states an...
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Policy Letter
POGO Asks DHHS Secretary Sebelius to Reinvestigate FDA’s Negligent Oversight of Unsafe Medical Devices
In recent years the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) has improperly approved the marketing of medical devices that do not meet the FDA’s own standards for efficacy and safety. Some of the unlucky patients who received these defective devices have been se...
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Policy Letter
POGO’s fourth reply to letters from Dr. Schatzberg and Dr. Nemeroff
Based on your most recent letters to POGO, we modified the NIH letter and blog to reflect that the timeline notes that GSK “would receive” all three drafts of the handbook and page proofs for final approval.
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Policy Letter
POGO Joins Letter Calling For Reopening of the NARA Investigation into the CIA Destruction of Federal Records
As organizations concerned with transparency and accountability, we are writing to support the re-opening of the National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA) investigation into the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) destruction of federal records showing the torture ...
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Policy Letter
Dozens of Groups Urge Rep. Issa to Help Pass S. 372 to Protect Whistlebowers and Taxpayers
Your support is crucial. After months of your support for the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA), our community was deeply disappointed to read in the Washington Post this morning that you want to delay passage of S. 372. The time to pass whistleblower reform is r...
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Policy Letter
POGO’s third reply to letters from Dr. Schatzberg and Dr. Nemeroff
In response to your third letter, and after additional reviews of the numerous documents in our possession, the Project On Government Oversight (“POGO”) will not be altering its November 29, 2010, revised letter to National Institutes of Health (“NIH”) or blog entry, or issuin...
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Policy Letter
98 Groups Urge House to Pass S. 372 Now to Protect Whistleblowers and Taxpayers
For the past two Congresses, the House of Representatives has passed, with strong bipartisan support, reform legislation that protects federal employees who blow the whistle on waste, fraud and abuse. This year, bipartisan support for these reforms advanced in the Senate, and...
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter: Congress Should Require That The Navy Give It More Time to Mull Littoral Combat Ship Acquisition Change
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is a nonpartisan independent watchdog that champions good government reforms. POGO’s investigations into corruption, misconduct, and conflicts of interest achieve a more effective, accountable, open, and ethical federal government. We...
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Policy Letter
POGO’s second reply to letter from Dr. Schatzberg and Dr. Nemeroff
In response to your letters dated December 9, 2010, POGO has consistently applied the earlier modification to the NIH letter and the December 01, 2010, Ghostbusters at POGO blog posted on POGO’s website.
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to FINRA Calling for Open Board Meetings
As an independent watchdog that champions good government reforms, POGO has a keen interest in ensuring that our nation’s financial regulatory watchdogs—including self-regulatory organizations (SROs) such as FINRA, which currently oversees over 4,600 brokerage firms operating ...
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Policy Letter
POGO’s first reply to letters from Dr. Schatzberg and Dr. Nemeroff
In response to your letters and after a comprehensive internal review, the Project On Government Oversight (“POGO”) will make minor changes to the online version of its November 29, 2010, letter to National Institutes of Health (“NIH”), which expressed concerns about the integ...