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Project On Government Oversight A first look at Dodd's financial regulatory bill:
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At long last, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D-CT) has released new draft legislation for overhauling the nation’s financial regulatory system. A summary of the legislation is available here. We’ll be going over the bill with a fine-tooth comb...
Project On Government Oversight POGO's back in the mix with science policy and the health and human services world, this time arguing that financial ties (i.e. consulting arrangements) between NIH grantees and outside organizations should be accessible to the public:
Project On Government Oversight Some words on open government to ponder this afternoon:
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POGO is an independent nonprofit that investigates and exposes corruption and other misconduct in order to achieve a more effective, accountable, open, and ethical federal government.
Project On Government Oversight USA Today breaks down the challenges that many whistleblowers face with a real-life example (and some thoughts from Danielle):
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Members of Congress want to give federal whistle-blowers better safeguards against retaliation when they report waste, fraud and abuse.
Project On Government Oversight Just in time for Sunshine Week, the National Security Archives releases the findings of its FIOA-request audit:
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The Obama administration's first year of efforts to improve access to government information has yielded mixed results, according to an audit of Freedom of Information Act requests set to be released Monday. The report by the National Security Archive at George Washington University comes at the...
Project On Government Oversight Yesterday's hearing on the troubled Joint Strike Fighter saw all kinds of questions. Here's one that POGO was kicking around while processing all that testimony:
Are Taxpayers Paying for Independent Cost Analysis to Be Ignored? - The Project On Government Oversi
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Yesterday's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) hearing, requested by Senator John McCain (R-AZ), revealed that the program is at risk of not delivering the promised number of aircraft, in part because the costs of the program have risen approximately 50...
Project On Government Oversight A step forward for an office with a history of handling whistleblowers poorly:
Defense Department Hiring Whistleblowing and Transparency Manager for IG Office - The Project On Gov
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The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) has just created a new position. In a recent job posting, the DoD IG announced that they are currently soliciting applications for a “Whistleblowing and Transparency Manager.” According to the...
Project On Government Oversight Intriguing acquisition personnel shifts going on at the General Services Administration this week:
Changing of the Guard -- Two Longtime GSA Acquisition Officials Bow Out of Public Service - The Proj
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Change is in the air at the General Services Administration — at the top of the week, David Drabkin, the agency's former deputy chief acquisition officer, began his new job at Northrop Grumman. And then Tuesday brought news that Jim...
Project On Government Oversight Be sure to peek our Twitter account today -- Mandy's live-tweeting the hearing on the Joint Strike Fighter (chime in using #JSF)
Project On Government Oversight New podcast on problems with the audit agency that covered $501 billion in proposed contracts in 2008:
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Project On Government Oversight If all goes according to plan, Washington DC will soon have some of the strongest whistleblower protection laws in the country:
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Some good news on the whistleblower protections front: Washington, DC will soon have some of the strongest whistleblower protections laws in the U.S. After being introduced last year, the District's Whistleblower Protection Amendment Act of 2009 has been passed unanimously...
Project On Government Oversight Soon to come: more prizes, challenges, contests to find out how to build a better government.
OMB Issues Guidelines for Using Contests and Prizes to Encourage Opengov Innovations - The Project O
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Tucked away in the Open Government Directive was a line instructing agencies to consider using prizes and contests as a means to improve open government initiatives. Today, Nextgov reports that the Office of Management and Budget has released guidelines for...
Project On Government Oversight Boeing appears to be the last man standing in the competition for the massive $35 billion tanker contract:
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Project On Government Oversight TWI digs up Scott's testimony before Congress last year and is reminded of a disturbing pattern in government contracting:
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For more on the systemic failures in contracting that contribute to firms like Blackwater getting more and more security contracts after, like, killing civilians and stealing guns, check out Scott Amey’s recent testimony to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. ...
Project On Government Oversight We're not the only ones worried about loopholes in congressional efforts to regulate over-the-counter derivatives:
New Report on Financial Regulatory Reform Highlights Derivatives Loopholes - The Project On Governme
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Last week, the Roosevelt Institute hosted a conference on financial regulatory reform with a star-studded panel of experts including Joseph Stiglitz, Simon Johnson, and Elizabeth Warren, among others. The conference coincided with the release of the Institute’s new report, Make...
