In honor of Sunlight Week I’ve posted an explanation on what I do and why I do it below. A... View Article
Continue readingC-SPAN Posts Full Archives
Serious geek-out moment. C-SPAN has posted their full archives online in embeddable format. I could waste a few days watching... View Article
Continue readingRead the Bill Becoming the Norm
Check out this line from Jay Newton-Small’s Swampland blog post on the way forward for health care reform in the... View Article
Continue readingEarmark Transparency Makes More Sense Than a Ban
The recent policies imposed by the House Appropriations Committee and the House Republican Caucus to ban for-profit earmarks and all... View Article
Continue readingBudget and Deficit Transparency
Earlier this week, the Senate passed an amendment to the unemployment extenders bill that would require the Secretary of the... View Article
Continue readingThe future of libraries
This article in the New Republic by Lisbet Rausing takes a look at the future of libraries and knowledge and... View Article
Continue readingMassa, Maf54 and the Ethics Committee
And now to totally contradict my previous post stating why no one needs to talk about tickle-monster Eric Massa. The... View Article
Continue readingLinks after lunch
1) Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick and a member of her staff are being called before a grand jury in Michigan.... View Article
Continue readingNYT: E-mails Indicate Deepening of Scandal Surrounding Sen. John Ensign
While everyone’s been running around writing about former congresstickler Eric Massa, Eric Lichtblau and Eric Lipton of the New York... View Article
Continue readingLinks at Noon
1) Roll Call prints a classic headline: “Earmark Advocates Skeptical of Ban.” Who would have thought that? 2) Bailed-out firms... View Article
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