Sunlight Foundation Press Release Archive
Press Releases for November 2006
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ALL-IN-ONE WEB TOOL LAUNCHED TO SEARCH POLITICIANS, DONORS, AND LOBBYISTS
WASHINGTON, DC – The Sunlight Foundation’s SunlightLabs is today unveiling a web tool that will allow users to search any politician, donor, industry or lobbyists on five leading political data websites at the same time. Available at www.sunlightfoundation.com, code will be made available next week, so that any webmaster can install it on his or her sites.
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SUNLIGHT UPS THE ANTE ON MAKING CONGRESSIONAL SCHEDULES PUBLIC
WASHINGTON, DC – The Sunlight Network is today announcing that if a non-profit organization gets a Member of Congress to sign an agreement to put their Congressional schedule on the internet, it will receive a $4,000 “good will bounty” from the group, as part of Sunlight’s ongoing Punch Clock Campaign.
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SUNLIGHT FOUNDATION SITE NAMED ‘BEST BLOG’
WASHINGTON, DC – The 2006 International Weblog Awards are out, and the Sunlight Foundation’s website (www.sunlightfoundation.com) has been named the “Best Blog” in the world, by an international panel of thirteen bloggers. The competition, nicknamed Best of the Blogs (BOB) is organized by German broadcasting company Deutche-Welle. The panel judged thousands of blogs on the basis of their “prose, creativity, design, and user friendliness.”
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NEW CITIZENS’ GUIDE TO INVESTIGATING CONGRESS LAUNCHES
WASHINGTON, DC – A new online tutorial teaches citizens all the basics of how to investigate where their Member of Congress gets his or her money from, how much he or she is worth, how they spend their campaign cash, as well as the role lobbyists and industry are playing on Capitol Hill.
