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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to Congressional Conferees Calling for Accountability and Transparency in Financial Regulatory Reform Legislation
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) offers the following recommendations to ensure that the final financial regulatory reform legislation incorporates the strongest features of the bills passed by the House (H.R. 4173, “The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act...
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Policy Letter
Groups Urge Financial Regulatory Conferees to Ensure Public Access to Disclosures on Financial Fraud
We, the undersigned organizations, urge you to ensure that the final version of the financial reform legislation does not unnecessarily limit public access to critical information about financial fraud or harm whistleblowers.
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Policy Letter
POGO Requests Information on Suspensions and Debarments
Founded in 1981, the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) investigates and exposes corruption and other misconduct in order to achieve a more accountable federal government. POGO has a keen interest in government contracting matters, especially matters related to the suspens...
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Policy Letter
POGO Supports Eshoo Amendment For Better Oversight Of The Intelligence Community
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) urges you to vote in favor of the amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill now under consideration that would require the Director of National Intelligence to comply with Government Accountability Office (GAO) audits of the intelli...
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Policy Letter
POGO joins letter to President Obama urging continued public access to monitoring of Gulf oil spill
We are writing to you in the midst of what may well be the worst environmental disaster in the history of the United States to urge that you give the public access to all monitoring data related to the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, including past, present and future videos o...
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter in Support of McCaskill Amendment to Improve Coordination Between Financial Agency Inspectors General
To that end, we are writing in support of an amendment introduced by Senator Claire McCaskill and co-sponsored by Senator Charles Grassley that will enhance the Restoring American Financial Stability Act (S. 3217) by improving coordination between financial agency Inspectors G...
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Policy Letter
Letter in Support of Grassley Amendment to Expose and Slow the Revolving Door at Financial Regulatory Agencies
We write in support of an amendment introduced by Senator Charles Grassley to improve the Restoring American Financial Stability Act (S. 3217) by exposing and slowing the revolving door between financial regulatory agencies and the industries they seek to regulate.
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter in Support of Grassley Amendment to Strengthen Inspector General Indpendence
...To that end, we are writing in support of an amendment introduced by Senator Charles Grassley and co-sponsored by Senator Claire McCaskill that would improve the Restoring American Financial Stability Act (S. 3217) by strengthening the independence of certain agency-appoint...
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Policy Letter
POGO Joins Letter to Secretary of Defense Gates Promoting Increased Transparency in Nuclear Weapons Policy
We write to thank you for your outstanding leadership in promoting increased transparency in nuclear weapons policy, including the recent publication of the Nuclear Posture Review Report in an entirely unclassified format and the disclosure of the size of the U.S. nuclear stoc...
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Policy Letter
POGO’s letter to OMB about Taxpayer Funded Executive Compensation
...POGO is concerned when contractors are reimbursed for compensation costs that are excessive, particularly in light of the current economic conditions and the Administration’s focus on establishing executive compensation guidelines with reasonable limits.
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter Urging GSA to Improve Contractor Listings
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) uses USAspending.gov on a regular basis, and since 2008 we have used the top 100 contractor list for compiling our Federal Contractor Misconduct Database (http://www.contractormisconduct.org/), which includes criminal, civil, and admi...
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Policy Letter
POGO’s FAPIIS Fee Waiver Request
I have included this FOIA Fee Waiver Supplement to provide a detailed account of POGO’s planned use of the requested information and to fully respond to GSA’s fee waiver criteria governed by 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(4)(A)(iii) and 41 C.F.R. § 105–60.305–13.