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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.

  1. Photo collage. A man in a business suit looks at his phone while chat bubbles filled with dollar signs float up in front of a stock market line chart. The U.S. Capitol building is visible in the background,
    Fact Sheet

    Fact Sheet: Legislation Can Stop Insider Trading on Prediction Markets

    To address the threat of insider trading on prediction markets, Congress must pass reforms that strengthen and expand the law.

  2. Collage of the Capitol building, the DHS logo, DHS agents in a cloud of tear gas, a detained immigrant, a body camera, security cameras, a judicial warrant, and a Lady Justice statue.
    Fact Sheet

    Congress Can Prevent DHS Abuses

    Congress has an opportunity to rein in abuses by immigration enforcement agents. Here’s what lawmakers should change to have the most impact.

  3. Collage of a city map with multiple location markers in the background and a hand holding a phone in the foreground. The phone displays a police officer and stacks of money.
    Fact Sheet

    Fact Sheet: Closing the Data Broker Loophole

    What Congress Should Do to Protect our Fourth Amendment Rights

  4. Multiple Republican and Democratic Party stickers cover the Hatch Act.
    Fact Sheet

    Fact Sheet: Why and How the Hatch Act Must Be Strengthened

    Congress must bolster the law limiting federal employees’ on-the-job political activity to enable better accountability when political appointees don’t comply.

  5. Collage of a line of soldiers in uniform standing at attention, the silhouette of the U.S. Capitol building, and clippings from the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Defense Department's Law of War Manual on unlawful orders.
    Fact Sheet

    Fact Sheet: Refusing Unlawful Orders

    Congress should understand, protect, and improve service members’ duty to refuse unlawful orders.

  6. Collage of family staring at a moldy house, a person with a suit, and money.
    Fact Sheet

    Fact Sheet: How Housing Conditions are Failing Military Families

    Service members and their families endure dire housing conditions, while negligent landlords continue to dodge accountability.

  7. Collage of a clipping of a DOT&E document and seal, and pieces of the Pentagon containing images of the Capitol building and a soldier aiming a XM7 rifle.
    Fact Sheet

    Fact Sheet: Cuts to DOT&E Weapons Testing Put Troops at Risk

    Recent cuts to DOT&E have resulted in a dramatically shorter list of programs receiving oversight.

  8. Collage of two hands caging in hundred dollar bills, the Pentagon, and an F-35.
    Fact Sheet

    Fact Sheet: Amend Nunn-McCurdy Act to Improve Defense Acquisition Oversight

    Congress must ensure that weapons programs do not exceed their original cost estimates.

  9. Collage of an aerial shot of the Pentagon building, a cutout of the definition of the word "commercial", a smaller Pentagon, stacks of money, and a contractor hiding money.
    Fact Sheet

    Fact Sheet: End Price Gouging on Federal Contracts

    Fixing the definition of “commercial” gives contracting officers the ability to aggressively negotiate and results in less wasteful spending.

  10. Collage of a sea of money, a broken F-35, and a broken military vehicle covered in bandages labelled with the DOD logo. Behind, a large clipping of the Pentagon building looms.
    Fact Sheet

    Fact Sheet: The Right-to-Repair for the United States Military

    DOD must have fair and reasonable access to information and materials needed to maintain its own weapons systems, and to be a ready and agile military. 

  11. Collage showing a line of military and police vehicles and a clipping from the Insurrection Act.
    Fact Sheet

    Fact Sheet: Reforming the Insurrection Act

    Reforming the Insurrection Act should be a key priority for the 119th Congress.

  12. Collage of stacks of hundred dollar bills increasing from left to right like a bar chart. In the background is a clipping from the Antideficiency Act.
    Fact Sheet

    Fact Sheet: Reclaim Congress’s Vital Power of the Purse

    Congress must not cede its power to direct federal spending.

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