Yesterday, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted, in essence, to sanction the practice of secret “pay-to-play” in... View Article
Continue readingCourts See the Light on Transparency
Yesterday, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals demonstrated that it gets the need for greater transparency... View Article
Continue readingShareholders: The Next Transparency Advocates
A new breed of transparency advocate is making itself heard this week, taking to the streets and to corporate boardrooms... View Article
Continue readingWill Lessons be Learned on Either Side of the Pond?
The British parliamentary inquiry into the phone hacking scandal by News of the World, the now shuttered tabloid published by... View Article
Continue readingThe Start of Something Big or the End of the Story?
At its meeting today, the Federal Communications Commission adopted a rule requiring the top four broadcasters in the biggest fifty... View Article
Continue readingWill McConnell Block Noncontroversial Electronic Filing Bill Again?
In what could be a record for shortest congressional hearing, the Senate Rules Committee today discussed S. 219, the Senate... View Article
Continue readingInching Towards E-filing
Where else but the United States Senate would digital documents containing vital public information be printed, scanned, emailed, printed again... View Article
Continue readingBroadcasters to FCC: Act in Our Interest, not the Public Interest
The Sunlight Foundation sent a letter to the FCC urging them to stay strong and adopt transparency rules that would... View Article
Continue readingPACking a Wallop
When a Leadership PAC and a Super PAC join forces, the influx of cash can help swing an election, concentrating... View Article
Continue readingEshoo Disclosure Amendment to be Voted on Today.
The House is voting today on the H.R. 3309, the FCC Reform Act. Rep. Eshoo is offering an important amendment... View Article
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