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Committee Advances Bill to Protect IGs from Political Retaliation
The National Taxpayers Union, R Street Institute [2] and Project on Government Oversight [3] submitted letters to the committee supporting many aspects of the legislation ahead of the meeting, as did Justice Department IG Michael Horowitz.
Endnotes
“National Taxpayers Union, R Street Institute”: https://www.ntu.org/publications/detail/ntu-r-street-encourage-congress-to-advance-bipartisan-inspector-general-bill-to-bidens-desk
“Project on Government Oversight”: https://www.pogo.org/letter/2021/05/pogo-endorses-ig-independence-empowerment-act/
More Than a Dozen IG Vacancies Await Nominees from Biden
“Taxpayers should be really dismayed that these vacancies persisted across administrations,” said Nan Swift, resident fellow for the governance program at the R Street Institute. “I hope that the Biden administration will prioritize these roles because it pays off big time for taxpayers when oversight is happening and when it is professional and competent.”
Administrations of both political parties have not prioritized IGs, she said. Undernder the Trump administration, “the role of the IG seemed to became so politicized,” she said, while during the Obama administration, a group of IGs became so frustrated with agencies’ lack of cooperation during investigations they wrote to Congress [2] to complain about the impact on oversight.