1) The White House invites tea partiers to challenge them on transparency.

2) Matt Yglesias: Transparency: The Good and The Bad.

3) Toyota’s team of lobbyists.

4) Gene Weingarten decided to test the belief held by a plurality of Americans that Congress would be better off if its members were chosen at random from the phone book. Hilariously, Weingarten used the Washington, D.C. phone book.

If you care to listen, NPR’s Fresh Air has an interview with me up on their site talking about the White House-PhRMA deal. You can listen here.