Recent Projects

• Pass S.482
  Demand accountability
• Read The Bill
  Demand they Read the Bill
• OOGL
  Our Open Government List
• Apps for America
  Sunlight's annual development contest
• Transparency Timeline
  A History of Congressional Public Access Reform.
• Tariff Suspensions Database
  See Who’s Seeking Tax Breaks on Imports from Congress
• CapitolWords 2.0
  Taking Congress at its Word.
• Transparency Jobs
  Bringing Transparency to Government, One Job at a Time
• Capitol Tweets
  Keep up on the latest tweets from members of Congress who use Twitter.
• FARAdb
  A proof of concept site based on Foreign Agent Registration Act data.
• PublicMarkup.org
  An Experiment to Open Bills to Online, Public Review
• Earmark Watch
  Bringing Citizen Oversight to Congressional Spending

Ongoing Projects

• The Open Senate Project
  A bipartisan, collaborative initiative to study the Senate's current information-sharing practices
• Party Time!
  From the early hours of the morning until late in the evening, politicians are partying. Sunlight's Party Time can help you find out who is partying, where and when.
• Real Time Investigations
  Follow along as Bill and Anu Detail their Investigative Reporting Adventures
• LOUIS
  the Beginning of a Comprehensive, Completely Indexed and Cross-Referenced Depository of Federal Documents
• The Open House Project
  Working to Identify Areas where Congress Can Open Up and Improve Access to Relevant and Timely Information
• OpenCongress
  Bringing Together Official Government Information with News and Blog Coverage to Give You the Real Story Behind What's Happening in Congress

Past Projects

• Fortune 535
  Running the Numbers on Congressional Wealth
• Where Are They Now?
  Former Congressional Staffers head through the Revolving Door on to K Street
• Punch Clock Map
  Putting Congressional Transparency on the Map
• Pass S.223
  Help us pass this bill to require Senate campaigns to file their campaign finance reports electronically.
• Let Our Congress Tweet
  Congress should join us where we are talking, sharing and networking-online.
• Visualizing Earmarks
  Select Visualizations of 2005 OMB Earmark Data
• Wiki the Vote
  Giving Constituents the Ability to Report on Candidates Running for the House and Senate
• Mashup Congress and Win:
  And the Winner is... Unfluence! We received more than a dozen entries to Sunlight's first Web 2.0 Mashup Contest
• Congressional Web Site Investigation
  Employing Citizen Oversight to Find Out if We are Getting our Money’s Worth from Congressional Web Sites