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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 Sandra Gavutis of the C-10 Research and Education Foundation, Inc.
For over 20 years the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) has worked to investigate, expose, and remedy systemic abuses of power, mismanagement, and subservience by the federal government to powerful special interests. POGO is a politically-independent, nonprofit watchdog t...
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Policy Letter
Statement of John Middlemiss and James Howard, former security guards at Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant
I am writing this letter to focus your attention on serious problems with the security in the nuclear industry. I have no political agenda and take no position in the debate over nuclear power. My only concern is for the safety and protection of Seabrook nuclear power plant an...
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to Gen. John Gordon Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration concerning security at nuclear weapons facilities
I have seen your statements in the media that security at the DOE nuclear weapons facilities is "tested to failure." You are clearly being mislead. The managers running security who are briefing you on these matters are the very people responsible for the ongoing pro...
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Policy Letter
POGO letter urging Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham to restore citizen access to the Department of Energy’s web sites
As you recall, the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) requested in an October 3, 2001 letter that a few specific maps be removed from the DOE website. POGO had been disturbed when, in researching ongoing security failures at DOE nuclear weapons facilities around the countr...
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Policy Letter
Organizations call on Senate to vote against the Air Force leasing Boeing 767s at a price dramatically higher than the cost of direct purchase
Even as veteran observers of the Congressional appropriations process, we are shocked, and outraged, by the provision in the Defense Appropriations bill that would have the Air Force lease Boeing 767s at a price dramatically higher than the cost of direct purchase.
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Policy Letter
Sign on letter from over 70 organizations supporting H.R. 1431 in the House and S. 606 in the Senate to ensure the independence of the EPA National Ombudsman
Our organizations are writing in support of S. 606, the Ombudsman Reauthorization Act of 2001. As you know, the very essence of an ombudsman is to stand apart from the agency and to perform independent investigations.
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Policy Letter
POGO letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
We urge you to recommend that President Bush veto the FY2002 Defense Authorization Bill unless Department of Energy (DoE) nuclear weapons facilities are included in the new BRAC process.
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Policy Letter
POGO letter to Senators of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee
The Department of Interior Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management presides over the important and contentious issue of domestic energy policy. Due to the weight of this office I would like to voice my concern over the Administration's nominee for this position, R...
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Policy Letter
Sign-on letter expressing opposition to reauthorization of the Price-Anderson Act which protects nuclear power and nuclear weapons facilitiy operators from financial liability
As national environmental, public interest, taxpayer, and consumer advocacy organizations, we are writing to express our opposition to reauthorization of the Price-Anderson Act. We are particularly concerned that this significant piece of legislation may be rolled into the ene...
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Policy Letter
POGO letter to Senator Carl Levin commending the senator for blocking legislation that would have permitted the Air Force to purchase C-17’s in a “commercial-like environment”
For nearly a year, the Project On Government Oversight has investigated attempts by the Air Force to craft a sweetheart deal with Boeing Company to purchase at least 60 C-17 airlift aircraft using "commercial" procurement practices. Not only would such a plan deny ta...
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Policy Letter
Letter to Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Pete Aldridge urging caution before plunging into the Joint Strike Fighter contract
It is crucial that the Joint Strike Fighter meet all of its testing criteria and stay within budget.
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Policy Letter
POGO letter to Department of Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham regarding detailed maps of nuclear sites on DOE websites
Researchers at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) have been working for months on an unclassified report highlighting the ongoing security failures at DOE nuclear weapons facilities around the country. In the course of this research, we discovered on the DOE website de...