Mike Allen at The Politico reports that the Obama/Biden campaign is planning to use disclosure as a way to challenge... View Article
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Looking for something to do this weekend? An offbeat filmmaker has focused on Washington’s money chase, and is making his... View Article
Continue readingLooking Back at the Convention Parties
Our Party Time hostess, Nancy Watzman, looks back fondly over her two weeks of Democratic and Republican convention party crashing... View Article
Continue readingSecrecy Report Card 2008
OpenTheGovernment.org, a coalition of organizations (including Sunlight) aimed at promoting transparency in the federal government, released their fifth annual Secrecy... View Article
Continue readingCasino Jack
Participant Media has a new movie coming out early next year called “Casino Jack: The United States of Money.” (Their... View Article
Continue readingLawmakers, with Clipped Wings, Still Fly
The new rules Congress passed last year requiring the disclosure of expense-paid trips members and their staff receive have sharply... View Article
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When Congress passed and the president signed into law the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (two years... View Article
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Apropos to all the lobbyist sponsored parties at the conventions, the Los Angeles Times, in its Sunday edition, reported that... View Article
Continue readingOpen Source South Africa
Last fall, the government of South Africa announced that it was adopting Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and Open... View Article
Continue readingCampaign ATM’s: The Political Donor Class
There’s nothing really new in this new study, but it reconfirms what we’ve known (and updates the figures for Congressional... View Article
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