Sunlight Foundation Press Release Archive
Press Releases for November 2007
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Watchdog Groups Urge Senators to Oppose Budget Secrecy
Washington, DC – Twelve non profit organizations concerned with oversight and transparency in government sent a letter to members of the United States Senate urging them to oppose an eleventh-hour secrecy provision added to the Conference Report on the FY 2008 Transportation-HUD Appropriations bill.
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ProgrammableWeb Launches Insanely Useful Hub of Open Source Government Data and APIs
WASHINGTON, DC - ProgrammableWeb recently launched a new central resource of over a dozen government-related mashups and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to improve access to legislative, civic and political information.
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Navigate House Defense Earmarks on Google Earth
Members of Congress know where the money is going: now citizens can, too. The Sunlight Foundation today released a Google Earth application that plots the locations for almost 1,500 earmarks in the House Defense Appropriations bill.
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Congress Unwilling to Abide by Competitive Contracting
Washington, DC – Congress has justifiably been highly critical of billions of dollars in government contracts that the Administration has issued without competition for reconstruction efforts in Iraq and the Gulf Coast. In fact, Congress has repeatedly voted to end or limit these "no bid" contracts. Section 828 the Senate Defense Authorization bill simply applies that same reasoning to earmarks.
