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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 Letter to Speaker-Elect Boehner Urging Creation of an Investigations Subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations
As an independent nonprofit that works for a more accountable, open, effective and ethical federal government, the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) wholeheartedly supports the creation of an Investigations Subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations. A number ...
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Policy Letter
Conservative Groups Call for Defense Spending Cuts
We write to urge you to institute principled spending reform that rejects the notion that spending cuts can be avoided in certain parts of the federal budget. Department of Defense spending, in particular, has been provided protected status that has isolated it from serious sc...
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to NIH on Ghostwriting Academics
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 Letter to NIH Director Francis Collins Again Urges Public Disclosure of Medical Researchers’ Financial Ties to Industry
Extramural investigators funded by the NIH may soon have their financial arrangements with industry disclosed on a public website.
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Policy Letter
Solidarity Letter in Support of Whistleblower Franz Gayl
This letter seeks your leadership to end retaliation against Mr. Franz Gayl, a senior United States Marine Corps’ civilian Science and Technology Advisor. Mr. Gayl blew the whistle to successfully challenge failure to deliver available mine resistant ambush protected (MRAP) ve...
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Policy Letter
POGO Questions the Independence of the State Department’s Inspector General
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is an independent nonprofit that investigates and exposes corruption and other misconduct in order to achieve a more effective, accountable, open and ethical federal government. As such, we have a strong interest in working to ensure ...
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Policy Letter
President Obama and Congressional Leaders, Make Whistleblowers a Priority in the Lame Duck
We have heard that you all agree on at least one issue: This country must address our growing federal debt and cannot afford to tolerate waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government. With this crisis looming, you must fulfill your commitments to taxpayers and enact strong...
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to NIH Official on Possible Value of Testing Statins for Pandemic Flu
We are writing to continue our correspondence on the possible use of statins to prevent influenza deaths.
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg Regarding Potentially Dangerous Drug Interaction Invovling Seroquel and Methadone
We would like to bring to your attention a potentially dangerous interaction of the drugs Seroquel (quetiapine) and methadone that may be putting veterans at risk. According to news accounts, these drugs are now widely used in combination to treat veterans with Post-Traumatic ...
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Policy Letter
POGO Joins Letter Voicing Concern About Public Access to Critical Information in Transportation Safety Board Reauthorization Act of 2010
On behalf of the undersigned organizations concerned with government openness and accountability, we are writing to urge you to not include in the final version of the National Transportation Safety Board Reauthorization (NTSB) Act of 2010 (HR 4714, S 2768) two provisions in S...
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to Secretary Salazar Regarding Bureau of Land Management and the Revolving Door
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) wants to bring to your attention our concerns about the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) ethics policies and practices. Our investigation found that BLM’s senior management did not appropriately respond to the Department of the Inter...
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Policy Letter
POGO’s letter to Deputy HHS IG on FDA’s CDRH’s low standard of medical devices approval
We want to thank you for meeting with us two months ago to discuss the untenable situation in the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). During our July 17 meeting, it was apparent that you were dissatisfied and concerned about last year’s investigation of wr...