This week’s Tools for Transparency post is part of a two-part mini-series by guest blogger Justin Grimes. Justin (@justgrimes) is... View Article
Continue readingAppropriators Should Consider Public Access to Leg Info at Friday Mark-up
Public access to legislative information could get a boost this Friday at a House subcommittee hearing. The Legislative Branch Appropriations... View Article
Continue readingSuper PAC spending crosses $100 million: Where did it all go?
Now that super PACs' spending in the 2012 election has just crossed the $100 million spending mark—more than twice the amount spent in independent campaign expenditures by all outside groups at this point in the 2008 election--Sunlight decided to reflect on what else voters might have gotten for all that money.
With $100 million, you could:
- Pay the annual tuition for 2,207 students at most expensive undergraduate education in the country—Columbia University;
- Snap up 632 median-priced single-family homes in metropolitan areas from the country's housing market;
- Fill the tank of the most gas-guzzling SUV—a Chevrolet ...
2Day in #OpenGov 5/17/2012
NEWS ROUNDUP Government Hatch Act 2.0: Witnesses urged lawmakers to address technology and social media issues when considering reforms to... View Article
Continue readingSanctioning Corruption in the US Senate
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 readingFacebook in Washington: Baby steps of a giant
Facebook, which has set off a frenzy of market speculation with its plans go public as early as Friday, isn't just raising its profile on Wall Street. As the social networking giant prepares for its initial stock offering, Sunlight decided to take a look at how Facebook is doing when it comes to political networking. Our finding: The company with the famously hoodied CEO is beginning to grow up, at least in the ways of Washington.
In the first quarter of this year, Facebook spent $650,000 lobbying Congress, according to a report filed with the Senate Office of ...
Continue readingJPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon met with Treasury Secretary on Volcker in March
Newly published meeting logs from the Treasury Department show that Jamie Dimon, CEO of embattled JPMorgan & Chase, had a private audience with Secretary Timothy Geithner to discuss the Volcker rule and other issues on March 6.
The logs also show that JPMorgan executives attended two other meetings that same month. Volcker was also on the table at another Treasury session the same day, this one a larger meeting with Deputy Assistant Secretary Lance Auer that also included representatives with other groups such as Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs.
The day before, JPMorgan representatives were also present at another group meeting ...
Continue readingOn the revolving door, a correction and a proposal
I recently made a mistake that turned into an object lesson on the limits of technology but also – and... View Article
Continue readingTrying to track JPMorgan? Treasury Dodd-Frank meeting logs not up to date
Updated 4:22 p.m. The Treasury Department has now fixed the link to March meetings with outside groups concerning implementation of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law. A spokesman also just called to thank us for alerting the agency to the missed deadline.
Something curious happened after we contacted the Treasury Department press office Tuesday to inquire why it had missed the April deadline for releasing information about meetings with outside groups around implementation of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law--meetings that often include financial heavyweights such as JPMorgan Chase & Company.
We did not get a response -- neither to our initial ...
Continue reading2Day in #OpenGov 5/16/2012
NEWS ROUNDUP Campaign Finance McCain back on campaign finance train? Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is reportedly working with Democrats on an... View Article
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