by Daniel Schuman and Eric Mill House Appropriators may deal a tremendous blow to prospects for improving public access to... View Article
Continue readingAnnouncing Politwoops: Deleted Tweets from U.S. Politicians
Today we're proud to unveil Politwoops, the only comprehensive collection of deleted tweets by U.S. politicians.
Continue readingCompanies who lobby outperform companies who don’t lobby
The more a company lobbies, the better its publicly-traded shares perform. At least, that’s the conclusion of an academic research... View Article
Continue reading2Day in #OpenGov 5/30/2012
NEWS ROUNDUP Government APIs for efficiency: The FCC’s Geographic Information Officer, Michael Byrne, argued that APIs should play a key... View Article
Continue readingSuper PACs play big in Texas
A flood of tea party money reshaped the Texas political landscape Tuesday, ousting a seven-term Democratic congressman who had campaign help from former President Bill Clinton, and forcing a one-time favorite for the Republican Senate nomination into a runoff.
The Associated Press is calling the ouster of veteran Rep. Silvestre Reyes, seen at right, a "stunner" that almost guarantees the heavily Democratic south Texas district will be represented in Congress next year by Beto O'Rourke, an ex-El Paso city councilman who favors the legalization of marijuana. Reyes out-raised O'Rourke by nearly $700,000 but the tea-party-affiliated Campaign for ...
Continue readingOpposition grows to Jamie Dimon role at Federal Reserve
A grassroots movement with some big name support is calling for Washington’s favorite banker to cut his ties with the Fed. Some 30,000 signatures have been collected on a Change.org petition urging that the chief executive of embattled JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, resign or be removed from the New York Federal Reserve's board of directors. The petition creator, Simon Johnson, is the former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund. In the past Change.org waged successful campaigns on issues ranging form the Bank of America debit card fee, to working conditions in Apple’s Chinese ...
Continue reading2Day in #OpenGov 5/29/2012
NEWS ROUNDUP Government Senate arms behind closed doors: The Senate Armed Services Committee voted for the National Defense Authorization Act last... View Article
Continue readingRomney super PAC challenges FEC on disclosure
The Federal Election Commission is trying to get some of the country's top super PACs to be more open about where they spent their money -- and is getting shrugged off by the super PAC supporting Mitt Romney.
This year, the normally quiescent FEC dinged six of the nation's top 11 spending super PACs, some multiple times, for not disclosing the states in which they aired political ads during the presidential primary and caucus season, one of the requirements on spending reports related to elections. In response, the super PAC supporting Mitt Romney, Restore Our Future, challenged the FEC ...
Continue readingOn Cognitive Democracy and New Technology
In many ways, the work that we do here at the Sunlight Foundation is built on the premise that democracy... View Article
Continue readingScout is Already Delivering Results
Scout isn’t even out of beta, but it’s already having a positive impact on lawmaking. You can see how in... View Article
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