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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to Cost Accounting Standards Board, Dr. Rein Abel Regarding Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on Accounting for the Cost of Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) Board's Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on "Accounting for the Cost of Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)" by government contractors (68 FR 50111, Aug. 20, 2003).
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Policy Letter
Letter to Department of Defense, Inspector General regarding expansion of inquiry into former Air Force acquisition chief Darleen Druyun’s conduct with Boeing
I am writing to request that you expand your inquiry into former Air Force acquisition chief Darleen Druyun's conduct with regard to her then-future employer Boeing.
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Policy Letter
Letter to Senate Armed Services Committee urging the committee to reject an Air Force proposal to lease 100 Boeing 767 aircraft
On September 4, 2003, your committee is scheduled to hear testimony on a multi-billion dollar U.S. Air Force proposal to lease 100 Boeing 767 wide-body aircraft and convert them into tankers. The Project On Government Oversight strongly urges you to reject the proposal for wha...
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Policy Letter
Letter to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge
oil and gas industry, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, Homeland Security Grants
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Policy Letter
Letter from taxpayer watchdogs supporting Shays/Markey legislation requiring better financial disclosure by federally subsidized mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
The undersigned taxpayer watchdog groups urge you to join U.S. Reps. Chris Shays (R-Conn.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass) as co-sponsors of H.R. 2002, the “Leave No Securities Behind Act.” The bill that would close a gaping hole in U.S. financial disclosure laws.
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Policy Letter
Letter to Department of Interior Employees
The increasingly stringent restrictions on what information government employees can share with the American public has severely compromised citizens' ability to participate in their own government. The Project On Government Oversight, Campaign for America's Lands, Government ...
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to House Armed Services Committee on 2004 Defense Authorization
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) has been closely monitoring Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's attempts to transform the U.S. military into a more relevant and cost-effective fighting force. POGO has been encouraged by Secretary Rumsfeld's seeming determination to ...
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Policy Letter
POGO to Congress: Services Acquisition Reform Act (SARA) Would Fleece Taxpayer
We urge you to exercise caution in approving any of the provisions of SARA which may make significant changes to existing procurement statutes without full consideration of their effects. Some provisions of the newly drafted SARA would broadly affect all types of contracts inc...
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to Energy Secretary Abraham recommending immediate competition of management contract of Los Alamos
Senator Pete Domenici recommends that the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) contract should be allowed to run to term ending 2005, and then be competed. However, we understand from sources that you feel that the University of California (UC) management failures uncovered s...
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to Senate Committee on Armed Services regarding the circumventing of operational testing and financial accountability of the nation’s missile defense program
In July of last year the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) issued a report detailing the reasons we feared that a sweeping January 2002 Department of Defense (DoD) directive would circumvent operational testing and financial accountability of the nation's missile defense ...
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on briefing attended by POGO Executive Director Danielle Brian
Thank you for inviting me to your October 18, 2002 defense briefing and also including me in the December 23, 2002 teleconference briefing with Stephen Cambone. I wanted to send you a follow-up letter with my suggestions to assist you in reaching your goals for reforming the m...
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Policy Letter
POGO letter to Dr. Everet H. Beckner, Deputy Administrator for Defense Program, NNSA, DOE regarding security and safety issues at LANL
Thank you for your letter of October 30, 2002 on our continuing mutual concern over the security and de-inventorying effort at TA-18. We share your concern about the large amount (multiple metric tons) of Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) at that site, in the context of the threat...