Sunlight Foundation Press Release Archive
Press Releases for August 2009
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Sunlight Foundation & ProPublica Create New Foreign Lobbying Influence Tracker
Washington, DC - Lobbyists for foreign interests disclosed more than 22,000 contacts with executive branch officials, members of Congress and their staffs and others as they sought favorable policies for their clients on everything from tax and trade issues to the resolution of longstanding territorial disputes and U.S. defense policy, a new analysis of filings made in 2008 under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) has found. The $87 million in fees the lobbyists received seemed to otherwise be a good investment for their foreign clients: members of Congress introduced legislation, wrote letters, or often took action soon after meeting with the lobbyists.
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New Features on Revamped OpenCongress.org Help Americans Better Track Legislation and Watchdog Congress
Washington, DC - OpenCongress.org, the free and open-source Web site for tracking and understanding the U.S. Congress, recently unveiled new features for monitoring the latest actions on Capitol Hill and communicating with legislators as part of a comprehensive site redesign and upgrade. OpenCongress is a project of the Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation.
