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Press Releases for September 2008

  • Sunlight Foundation Petition Tells Congress to Wait 72 Hours After Posting Next Bailout Bill Before Voting

    Washington, DC - Today, the Sunlight Foundation is calling on Congress to increase legislative transparency by posting the next version of the financial bailout legislation online for at least 72 hours before bringing the bill to a vote. Citizens can sign the petition here: http://readthebillfirst.org.

  • Sunlight Foundation Petition Urges Congress to Wait 72 Hours Before Voting on the Bailout Bill

    WASHINGTON, DC – As part of its ongoing effort to bring greater transparency to Congress, the Sunlight Foundation is calling on Congress to give citizens and lawmakers sufficient time to read and debate the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 before bringing the bill for a vote. Sunlight advocates for all legislation to be posted online for a minimum of 72 hours before voting can take place.

  • Get Filled in on the Bailout: Sunlight Shines a Light on Lobbying, Fundraiser Parties and Secret Legislation

    WASHINGTON, DC – The Sunlight Foundation continues to trace the vested interests influencing members of Congress as they grapple with the proposed $700 billion bailout of the nation's financial industry. Sunlight's Real Time Investigations blog reveals that the in-house lobbyists and hired guns of eight major players in the financial crisis have themselves donated $380,000 in campaign cash to members of the Senate Banking Committee in the first six months of 2008. They've also given $144,000 to six key members of the House Financial Services Committee, including $63,500 to Rep. Barney Frank, the chairman.

  • Financial Sector Fetes Lawmakers Making Bailout Decisions

    WASHINGTON, DC – Some 258 parties, a number of them hosted by lobbyists for the finance, insurance, and real estate industries, have been thrown for members of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee this year, according to an investigation by the Sunlight Foundation’s Party Time project. Members of the House committee, along with the Senate Banking Committee, are considering the $700 billion bailout legislation for the financial sector proposed by the administration.

  • Citizens can Markup Bailout Bills on PublicMarkup.org

    WASHINGTON, DC - As Congress grapples behind closed doors with the administration's unprecedented bail out of distressed financial firms, the Sunlight Foundation is providing citizens with a means of weighing in on the debate about what policies are best to steer the nation through this crisis. Sunlight has posted the two leading proposals for dealing with the crisis on its open source policy making site, PublicMarkup.org, so that anyone can review and comment on the bills.

  • Millennials Talk "Money in Politics" in Washington D.C.

    Media advisory for Mobilize.org's Democracy 2.0 Entrepreneur Money in Politics Grant Summit, sponsored by Sunlight Foundation.