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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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TestimonyCongress Must Strengthen National Security Oversight
POGO and Demand Progress urged the Subcommittee to provide necessary security clearances for personal office staff for members of key national security committees & study the costs of providing a cleared personal staff member for each House Member.
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TestimonyHouse and Capitol Police Inspectors General Should Make their Reports Public
Neither have posted their work in years, to the detriment of taxpayers and lawmakers alike
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TestimonyData Quality and Access to Inspector General Work Can and Should Be Improved
POGO testified before the House Appropriations’ subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government on steps needed to improve data quality on USASpending.gov, support Oversight.gov, and make inspectors general work more accessible.
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TestimonyOpposition to President Trump’s Unconstitutional Declaration of a National Emergency
We must vigorously oppose abuse of power, regardless of who is in the White House, and we call on all Members of Congress to do the same.
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TestimonyH.R. 1 and Executive Branch Conflicts of Interest
Some might think H.R. 1, the For the People Act of 2019, is solely aimed at President Trump and his Administration—but in fact, it addresses problems that many good government groups have assembled for over a decade to correct.
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TestimonyClosing the Gap in Judicial Ethics
Sarah Turberville, Director of The Constitution Project at POGO, testifies that Congress should pass a long-overdue measure to create a code of conduct for Supreme Court justices.
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TestimonyTestimony of Peter Tyler on Federal Grant Management
Grant reform initiatives are clearly needed. With leadership from the executive branch, and bipartisan oversight and legislation from Congress, the coming years could see great progress.
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POGO and Demand Progress Urge Congress to Pursue Foreign Influence Reform
Project On Government Oversight and Demand Progress Action provide written testimony to the Senate Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee urging reform for the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
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POGO Testimony: Need for Expanded Clearances for Congressional Staffers
POGO's Mandy Smithberger testifies before the Legislative Branch Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee to call for strengthening Congress's ability to conduct oversight over classified programs and spending by providing compartmentalized clearances to personal off...
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POGO Testimony: How Government Can and Should Learn from Previous Disasters
POGO submitted written testimony for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing examining the federal response to the 2017 Hurricane season. The United States must improve how it responds to major natural disasters, including how it budgets before ...
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POGO Provides Testimony for Senate Hearing on Foreign Lobbying
POGO has provided written testimony for a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the lack of enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), the topic of a 2014 POGO report.
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Written Testimony of POGO’s Danielle Brian on “Concurrent Congressional and Criminal Investigations: Lessons from History”
Chairman Graham, Ranking Member Whitehouse, and Members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me to testify today. My name is Danielle Brian, and I am the Executive Director of the Project On Government Oversight (POGO). Founded in 1981, POGO is a nonpartisan, independent w...