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The 26-member strong Congressional Transparency Caucus will kick off its inaugural event today at 1pm on Capitol Hill. The bi-partisan... View Article
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The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold an executive business meeting on Thursday to evaluate a trio of bills aimed at... View Article
Continue readingTransparency Caucus Announces Inaugural Event
The newly-formed Transparency Caucus announced it will hold its inaugural event on Thursday, April 29 at 1pm on Capitol Hill. The... View Article
Continue readingA Study in Transparency: The Open Government Directive, the Department of Labor, and the Open Data Principles
Cabinet agencies (and others) released their Open Government Plans last week with much fanfare, mixed reviews, and many promises for... View Article
Continue readingWhy everyone should know what makes a good data set; it’s not as hard as you think
In many offices, when technology questions arise, the answer is to reflexively trust the technologists. These are often the folks... View Article
Continue readingReps. Quigley, Issa, and 17 Others Form ‘Congressional Transparency Caucus’
Representatives Mike Quigley and Darrell Issa announced the creation of the bipartisan “Congressional Transparency Caucus” today. This historic move provides... View Article
Continue readingSupreme Court unveils new website: how does it look?
New website Last year, we made suggestions about how the U.S. Supreme Court should redesign its website. Today, the Court... View Article
Continue readingWhere’s CONAN? 6 months later, still no sign of legal treatise
On the 220th birthday of the Constitution, Sunlight made a simple request: the fantastic legal treatise known as the Constitution... View Article
Continue readingVideo: Press Conference Announcing the Public Online Information Act
Representative Steve Israel, Sunlight Executive Director Ellen Miller, and Personal Democracy Forum co-founder Andrew Rasiej announce the introduction of the... View Article
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