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Policy Letter
POGO letter to Rep. Neil Abercrombie regarding appropriated funds to support defense industry lobby efforts to detract support from amendment to the 2002 National Defense Authorization Act
Today we received an email sent from a government computer showing that Department of Defense (DOD) officials appear to have used appropriated funds to support defense industry lobby efforts to detract support from your amendment to the 2002 National Defense Authorization Act.
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Policy Letter
Taxpayer, Environmental and Union Groups Support Amendment to Ensure Oil Companies Pay Fair Share
In June, 2000 the Minerals Management Service (MMS) implemented a final oil valuation rule that collects $70 million more from oil companies for drilling on federal and Indian lands. As a result, the oil industry's decades-long practice of shortchanging the taxpayers was ended.
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld Recommending Cancellation of the Army’s Crusader Program
We applaud the decision of your advisory panel that recommended cancellation of the Army's Crusader program and the modernization of others. We hope you will accept the panel's recommendations and move to eliminate overpriced, under tested, cold-war weapons that are not consis...
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Policy Letter
POGO’s Letter in Response to Raised Questions about Air Force/Boeing deal to make the C-17 Cargo Aircraft “Commercial”
For the past several months, we have been closely examining a proposal to commercialize the C-17 cargo aircraft. We believe that implementation of the plan, known as the "BC-17X Public/Private Acquisition Strategy," would be ill-advised and leave the taxpayers vulner...
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Policy Letter
Letter to Members of Congress on Defense Budget
We believe it is inappropriate to increase the defense budget when the Pentagon is unable to pass a financial audit or account for billions of taxpayer dollars. They should not be rewarded for this incompetence. Some voices sharing our concerns have said:
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Policy Letter
POGO Supplementing Letter to Eric Shipley, Cost Accounting Standards Board Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on “Accounting for the Costs of Post-Retirement Benefit Plans (PRBs) Sponsored by Government Contractors.”
This letter supplements the Project on Government Oversight's (POGO's) comment letter to the Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) Board of December 18, 2000 concerning the CAS Board's Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on "Accounting for the Costs of Post-Retirement...
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Policy Letter
Letter to President-Elect Bush
Our organizations are writing to express dismay and alarm at the Environmental Protection Agency's recent treatment of its National Hazardous Waste and Superfund Ombudsman Office
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Policy Letter
Cost Accounting Standards Board, Dr. Rein Abel, Regarding Accounting for the Cost of Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)
Cost Accounting Standards Board, Dr. Rein Abel, Regarding Accounting for the Cost of Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)
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Policy Letter
Public Interest Groups Oppose Oil & Gas Royalties In Kind Amendment
We are writing to express our opposition to the Oil and Gas Royalties in Kind (RIK) amendment to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act.
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Policy Letter
Sign-On Letter from over 50 organizations supporting legislation to strengthen the independence of the EPA Ombudsman’s Office
We respectfully submit that reauthorization would allow the EPA National Ombudsman's Office to continue providing a vital service to the American public.
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Policy Letter
Over 100 Organizations Sign Letter to House Committee on Resources in Support of POGO
The organizations write “to express deep concern over your Committee's efforts to obtain the home phone records of the Project On Government Oversight's (POGO) Executive Director as well as the organization's office phone records.”
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Policy Letter
Letter From Coalition Of 24 Organizations: to David Guzy, Chief, Rules & Regulations Staff, Royalty Management Program, MMS
The undersigned organizations urge the Minerals Management Service (MMS) to finalize the Indian and Oil Valuation Rules for implementation as soon as the Congressional moratorium is lifted on March 15, 2000.