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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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TestimonyTestimony In Support of Limits on Funding for Face Recognition Surveillance
We call on Congress to prohibit funding for dangerous forms of face recognition surveillance for the upcoming fiscal year. While this technology is not restrained by law and prone to error, Congressional funds should not spur on its use.
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TestimonyEnhancing the House’s Oversight Over Classified Information
The Project On Government Oversight and Demand Progress urged the House to fund and provide the authority for members on national security committees to have staff with adequate clearances to perform their constitutional oversight duties.
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TestimonyAddressing Federal Vacancies Through Fundamental Transparency Reform
Persistent federal vacancies are contrary to a direct constitutional mandate and they force taxpayers to settle for opaque, unaccountable, ineffective leadership in the highest levels of government.
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TestimonyRoyalty Relief Procedures Cost Taxpayers Tens of Billions
The bureau’s so-called “royalty relief” procedures often result in forgone royalty payments worth tens of billions of dollars.
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TestimonyThreats to Due Process in U.S. Immigration Courts
POGO submitted testimony for a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on threats to due process and judicial independence in the immigration court system.
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TestimonyThe State of Whistleblower Protections and Ideas for Reform
In a hearing before the House Oversight and Reform Committee’s Government Operations Subcommittee, POGO recommends common sense updates to whistleblower protection laws to address systemic weaknesses.
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TestimonyPOGO Testimony on Oversight of ICE Detention Centers
We found serious flaws in ICE’s inspection and oversight system and inhumane conditions in ICE detention centers. DHS and ICE documents reveal inadequate medical care, inadequate mental health care, and overuse of solitary confinement.
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TestimonyPOGO Testimony on GSA Oversight of Lease with Trump Organization
POGO’s Liz Hempowicz testifies on the state of General Services Administration (GSA) oversight over the the federal government’s lease with the Trump Organization for the Old Post Office building.
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TestimonyWhistleblower Retaliation at the Department of Veterans Affairs
Two years after the VA’s whistleblower office was created, the agency’s culture of retaliation persists
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TestimonyBasing F-35s in Burlington, Vermont, Raises Significant Questions
Testimony of Dan Grazier, Jack Shanahan Military Fellow at the Center for Defense Information at POGO, before the Vermont State Senate Government Operations Committee about issues related to basing F-35s in Burlington on May 7, 2019.
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TestimonySmaller Budgets Will Result in a More Effective Military
The proposed fiscal year 2020 Pentagon budget at $750 billion would be the largest in American history. Congress has opportunities now to create efficiencies that would ultimately result in a more effective military force.
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TestimonyIn Support of Research and Reporting on the Disparate Use and Impact of FISA
Surveillance justified and conducted in secret under the auspices of national security often results in discrimination and disparate impacts—we need more transparency on whether this is occurring with FISA.