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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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Public Comment
Public Comment on Nuclear Safety Board’s Access to Information
A new DOE directive has significantly and improperly undermined the DNFSB's access to defense nuclear facilities and personnel and restricted its ability to perform meaningful oversight of the matters that most affect public health and safety.
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AnalysisParticular Vulnerability: Opposing Indefinite Detention of Children
POGO filed a comment opposing a proposed regulation that would allow the government to indefinitely detain children in facilities not licensed by state child-welfare agencies.
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ReportSecuring Our Elections: How States Can Mitigate the Potential Damage of Hacked Voter Registration Rolls
What would happen if a cyberattack against our election systems compromised states’ registration databases and millions of voters were forced to cast a provisional ballot?
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Public Comment
POGO Praises Contractor Disclosure Rule, Advises Stronger Enforcement
POGO submitted a public comment supporting the renewal of a federal rule that requires companies seeking contracts and grants to disclose their corporate predecessors—a needed transparency measure that some companies seem to be openly defying.
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Policy Letter
Strengthening Congressional Committee Rules: Recommendations for Improved Oversight and Transparency
POGO is writing to Congress in order to urge specific improvements to House and Senate committee rules in order to strengthen Congressional oversight.
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Policy Letter
POGO Asks Congress to Request DOJ Ethics Guidance to Acting Attorney General Whitaker
Mr. Whitaker’s public comments regarding the Special Counsel’s investigation and his ties to a grand jury witness raise legitimate questions about whether he can oversee the investigation fairly.
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Public Comment
POGO Submits Comment Opposing Child Detention Regulation
The proposed regulation would roll back long standing protections for immigrant children in detention.
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ReportBrass Parachutes: The Problem of the Pentagon Revolving Door
Pentagon officials captured by the contractors they oversee is skewing our spending priorities and foreign policy.
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Policy Letter
POGO Files Hatch Act Complaint Against USDA Secretary
POGO filed a complaint because the Secretary of Agriculture may have violated the Hatch Act by endorsing Illinois Representative Mike Bost at a town hall meeting.
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Policy Letter
POGO Urges Testing Director to Maintain Annual Report Transparency
The Pentagon’s Testing Director was reportedly considering a move to classify his office’s annual report, hiding the results from Congressional staffers and the public.
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AnalysisNovember Oversight Training: How to Work with Agency and Industry Counsel
POGO's Congressional Training Program aims to educate Hill staffers and other people in the legislative branch about the oversight powers of Congress.
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AnalysisPaper Cuts: The American President and the Prince of War
Relentless war privateer Erik Prince won’t stop until he persuades President Trump to let him take charge of U.S. operations in Afghanistan.