Sunlight Foundation

Congress ought to punch a clock

Publication: Philadelphia Daily News

Flavia Colgan
February 9, 2007

Placing daily schedules on the Internet is the brainchild of the Sunlight Foundation, a new non-profit in Washington created to increase transparency in Congress. Through their Punchclock Campaign, they persuaded over 90 challengers for Congress to promise to post their schedules if elected. Not a single incumbent would sign the agreement.