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Bipartisan Coalition: Pentagon Doesn’t Need a Budget Boost 36 Former GOP Lawmakers: Honor Your Oath and Protect the Constitution Whistleblower Advocates Praise Creation of House Office, Cite Need for Independent Leader POGO Urges Accountability Over DOD Surplus Program POGO Joins 50 Organizations in Calling for DHS to Release Border Plan POGO Files Hatch Act Complaint Against USDA Secretary POGO Letter Supporting the Arms Sale Oversight Act POGO Urges Congress to Protect Inspector General Independence Advocates Ask Defense Secretary for Update on Required Retaliation Training Civil Society Urges Senate Judiciary to Demand Access to Documents Civil Society Defends Congressional Oversight Suggestions for Congressional Oversight after US-Russia Summit Civil Society Urges Senators to Reject Haspel Nomination, Citing Lack of Transparency POGO Urges Congress Not to Confirm Nominee Who Used Nonprofit for His Own Benefit POGO Asks Chairman Gowdy to Give the Oversight Gavel to a Member Willing to do the Job Civil Society Demands Transparency and Accountability for CIA Nominee's Role in Torture of Detainees POGO Requests Clarity on Contradicting Statements by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Whistleblower Coalition Urged Congress to Give Congressional Staff Whistleblower Protections POGO Urges Congress to Oversee Implementation of New Whistleblower Laws at the VA Letter to Office of Special Counsel Requesting Investigation Into Energy Department Anti-Leak Posters Civil Society Objects to Senate's Regression into Secrecy Suggested Ethics Reforms for 2017 Congress: Amend House Rules on Congressional Fellows POGO Asks the House to Strengthen Congressional Oversight of the Intelligence Community POGO and National Taxpayers Union Urge Congress to Withhold MOX Funding POGO and Taxpayer Groups Ask Congress to Cut MOX Funding POGO Joins Groups Urging President Obama to Include Beneficial ownership transparency in the National Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct POGO Calls for New Chairperson at Chemical Safety Board POGO Joins Groups in Defending the Office of Congressional Ethics Now is the Time to Modernize Congressional Oversight Rules POGO Highlights DoD Effort to Kill Beneficial Service Contract Inventory System POGO Requests Independent Study to Determine Need For Nuclear Facility POGO Urges Department of Defense IG to Broaden Its Interpretation of Contractor Whistleblower Protection Law POGO Challenges DoD's Disclosure of Budgeting and Spending Service Contract Data POGO Calls for Hearings on Afghanistan Allegations from Whistleblower Lt. Col. Daniel Davis POGO Letter to Speaker-Elect Boehner Urging Creation of an Investigations Subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations POGO Requests Information on Suspensions and Debarments POGO Supports Eshoo Amendment For Better Oversight Of The Intelligence Community POGO's Letter to Congress With A Dozen Nonpartisan Good Government Fixes To Implement in 2010 POGO Letter to Rep. Tanner Supporting Change to House Rules Requiring Periodic Hearings on Waste, Fraud, Abuse and Mismanagement

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Caught Between Conscience and Career

analysis | March 20, 2019 | POGO Staff & Government Accountability Project & Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility

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Opposition to President Trump’s Unconstitutional Declaration of a National Emergency

testimony | February 28, 2019 | Sarah Turberville & Liz Hempowicz

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Congress Needs to Build Up Election Security Protections, and Also Contingencies

analysis | February 21, 2019 | Jake Laperruque
Could the New Yemen Resolutions Further Erode Congressional War Powers?

analysis | February 13, 2019 | Lou Fisher & Mandy Smithberger
Watch: Improving Bipartisanship in High-Profile Congressional Investigations

analysis | February 8, 2019 | Justin Rood
H.R. 1 and Executive Branch Conflicts of Interest

testimony | February 6, 2019 | Scott Amey
Closing the Gap in Judicial Ethics

testimony | January 29, 2019 | Sarah Turberville
Is the Pentagon Learning from Previous Natural Disasters?

analysis | January 22, 2019 | Peter Tyler
EPA Faces Perfect Storm of Corruption

investigation | January 15, 2019 | Laura Peterson
Those Porky Pentagon Earmarks Never Really Went Away

analysis | January 14, 2019 | Winslow Wheeler