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Press Releases for March 2009

  • Statement on Bonus Exemption Provision in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

    Statement from Ellen Miller, executive director and co-founder of the Sunlight Foundation on Senator Dodd’s bonus exemption provision in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (AARA) of 2009 permitting AIG bonuses:

  • Sunlight Foundation Announces $4 Million Investment from Omidyar Network

    WASHINGTON, DC – The Sunlight Foundation announced today it has received a $4 million grant from Omidyar Network to support Sunlight's efforts to improve access to existing government information, digitize new information, and create new online tools to foster greater government transparency.

  • OpenCongress Celebrates Sunshine Week by Unveiling New Wiki, Open Source Video and Inline Commenting on Bills

    WASHINGTON, DC – OpenCongress.org, a project of the Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation, recently announced new features on its open source site to make it even easier to follow the latest actions in Congress. The new features include an integration of a wiki, video of House and Senate floor proceedings, an RSS feed that tracks "rushed" bills, version tracking for legislation and the ability for citizens to comment on specific sections of pending legislation.

  • Editorial Memo: The Senate Should Make Campaign Contributions Transparent

    Imagine if Google worked this way: You type in a search term, and, at Google headquarters, an army of workers in the search department printed out the contents of every responsive Web page, then hauled them in wheelbarrows to a results department, where another army of workers typed the contents of those pages back into their computers. Crazy? Indeed, but that's exactly how the Senate handles its campaign finance reports.

  • Editorial Memo on Strengthening Government Transparency

    Public oversight, civic participation and electoral engagement—the stuff of democratic accountability—all are predicated on the idea of a transparent, open government. Transparency is the cornerstone of public trust; without the former, the latter is meaningless.