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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 Congress Calling For Increased Oversight of Financial Self-Regulators
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is writing to raise concerns that Congress’s efforts to reform the financial regulatory system have not adequately addressed the failures of the private self-regulatory organizations (SROs) that are tasked with protecting the investin...
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Policy Letter
POGO joins letter to Committee on Homeland Security on over-classification
We are writing to convey our support of your amendment to require the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community to prepare a report on over-classification.
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to NRC Recommending Additional Changes to Alternative Dispute Resolution Program
I am writing to follow up to my remarks at the Commission briefing on NRC Allegation and Enforcement Program Initiatives on January 19, 2010, regarding the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) program.
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Policy Letter
POGO’s Letter to Congress With A Dozen Nonpartisan Good Government Fixes To Implement in 2010
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is submitting to Congress a number of actions it should take that would fix many of the systemic problems that have long plagued the federal government and that spurred POGO’s creation 29 years ago. POGO submitted a similar list to Co...
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to President Obama Regarding Systemic Safety Issues at Los Alamos National Lab
We are writing with additional information related to our December 14, 2009, letter regarding the Department of Energy’s (DOE) oversight of the nuclear weapons labs
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Policy Letter
POGO joins sign-on letter encouraging the Administration to improve its open government efforts
As advocates for government openness, we support the Administration’s efforts to provide the public with access to information through Data.gov. We are eager to work with you to ensure the success of Data.gov and, in that spirit, write to raise our concerns with the datasets s...
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Policy Letter
List of Groups Supporting Comprehensive Whistleblower Rights Grows
The undersigned organizations and corporations write to support the completion of the landmark, nine-year legislative effort to restore credible whistleblower rights for government employees. We offer our support to expeditiously pass legislation that includes the critical ref...
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Policy Letter
POGO Urges President to Enhance Oversight
We applaud the progress you’ve made in the first year of your Administration through the Open Government Directive and the ethics pledge and revolving door ban for your appointees. Your memorandums on government contracting, the acquisition system, and service contractors est...
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Policy Letter
POGO Joins An Open Letter to the United States House of Representatives: Support the Health Care Transparency Resolution!
On behalf of an ideologically diverse coalition of millions of Americans, we write to strongly urge that you sign the discharge petition for H. Res. 847. Introduced by Representative Vern Buchanan (R-FL), this petition would force a vote on a bipartisan “Sunshine Resolution” t...
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Policy Letter
Contractor Conflict of Interest Rule Needs Improvement
... POGO has a keen interest in government contracting matters, especially matters related to acquisition and conflicts of interest. The proposed rule provides enhanced measures to identify and prevent personal conflicts of interest when contractor employees are performing acq...
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Policy Letter
POGO Concerned With Self-Policing Import Programs
In our efforts to further this mission, we want to bring to your attention two troubling self-policing programs—the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) and Importer Self-Assessment (ISA) programs—administered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) within ...
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro Regarding Loopholes in Proposed Rule to Increase Transparency for Troubled Assets
One of the many challenges on the path to a full economic recovery is the ongoing confusion and uncertainty over the appropriate value of troubled assets such as mortgage-backed securities.