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Sunlight Foundation's Political Party Time - David Plouffe is coming to New York City tonight, first to hobnob with high rollers at the home of a major bundler, then to party with the under 40 set ...
Sunlight Labs - Yesterday morning I watched the first markup session of the Earmark Transparency Act. The bill aims to create a comprehensive database of all earmark requests, not ...
Sunlight Foundation - The House Ethics Committee investigative subcommittee that has spent the past eighteen months investigating allegations of ethical impropriety against Rep. Charlie Rangel charged the Harlem congressman with thirteen counts of ...
Sunlight Foundation - Online video has made quite a bit of progress since the early days of Quicktime and RealMedia, technologies so slugish it was easier to walk to Blockbuster and back before ...
Sunlight Foundation - Update 2: Rangel has not cut a deal. Adjudicatory subcommittee ranking member Mike McCaul just stated, “we are in the trial phase.” Update: Or not, according to Rangel himself. ...
Sunlight Foundation - Last year I asked the internet gods for a URL shortener that created permanent links to legislation on THOMAS. Lo and behold, several months later TinyThom.as was revealed, ...
Sunlight Foundation - At 1 pm the House Ethics Committee will hold a public meeting to reveal the ethics charges against Rep. Charlie Rangel. It is still unknown what Rangel will do after ...
Sunlight Foundation - While the temperature in Las Vegas and Washington appeared similar during last week, the drastic divergence in humidity made the dry heat at Netroots Nation something to revel ...
Sunlight Foundation's Political Party Time - His campaign might be tweeting about his upcoming 80th birthday bash, but the two most recent fundraisers held by Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., were much ...
Sunlight Foundation - We are another step closer to the end of secret holds in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has placed the Secret Holds Elimination Act on the Senate calendar ...
Sunlight Foundation - The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted out S. 3335, the Earmark Transparency Act today, but not without objections. The bill would create a single searchable, sortable ...
Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group - The Food and Drug Administration maintains 11 crucial drug databases available to the public on the agency website. However, if you tried to look them up on Data.gov, ...
