As chairman of the House Republican Conference, Rep. Adam Putnam has been busy with the #dontgo protest, in which angry... View Article
Continue readingThe Wrecking Crew
Last Friday’s broadcast of the Bill Moyers Journal replayed and updated its Capital Crimes report, which gives a very good... View Article
Continue readingLook for Sunlight @ Netroots Nation
A large contingent of Sunlighters are heading to Austin this week for Netroots Nation, the 3rd annual gathering of Kos... View Article
Continue readingData Visualizations and Democracy
Blogger, e-government guru and fellow panelist at PDF, David Stephenson, writing at The Huffington Post profiles a speech he’s to... View Article
Continue readingOld Politics? I Think Not
Day before yesterday, The New York Times looks at Sen. Joe Lieberman’s growing estrangement from his (former?) Democratic colleagues. The... View Article
Continue readingLobbyists Funding Conventions
The Campaign Finance Institute (CFI) released figures today showing that the private donors to the two major party conventions have... View Article
Continue readingParty Time at the Conventions
Today’s edition of The New York Times profiles Steven Farber, a very successful lobbyist, who helped secure the Democratic National... View Article
Continue readingPimping the Powers Behind the Thrones
In today’s edition, Roll Call profiles how members of Congress increasingly pimping their top aides as a way to raise... View Article
Continue readingLeveraged Lobbying
Zephyr Teachout (former Sunlight colleague and continuing great ally) had an interesting post at techPresident last Friday: airlines have started... View Article
Continue readingLet Our Congress Tweet
Shouldn’t members of Congress be able to connect with all of us freely and easily online? I’d guess most of... View Article
Continue reading
59063
