At 1:55 pm, the House of Representatives agreed by voice vote to pass the DATA Act, HR 2146, after 25... 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 reading2Day in #OpenGov 4/25/2012
NEWS ROUNDUP Campaign Finance Detour around disclosure: 90 % of the total independent political ad spending for the 2012 general... View Article
Continue readingGingrich super PAC backers pulled the plug before he did?
The latest news reports say that Newt Gingrich plans to drop his roller coaster of a presidential bid next week but Sunlight's Follow the Unlimited Money tracker suggests that the former House speaker's biggest money backers may already have pulled the plug.
Winning Our Future, the pro-Gingrich group that has been almost entirely funded by the family of gambling mogul Sheldon Adelson, made it's last independent expenditure almost a month ago in the Wisconsin primary, the tracker shows. That means the committee didn't play in Delaware, the state where Gingrich vowed to make his last stand ...
Continue readingWhat’s Next For the DATA Act
Around 3pm today, the House of Representatives is expected to vote on passage of the DATA Act, and we hope that it... View Article
Continue readingGuess Who’s Coming to TCamp12: The Dondon Parafina and Wong Aung Edition
“Guess Who’s Coming to TCamp12” is a mini-series we started to introduce some of the faces that you’ll see at... View Article
Continue readingScout, in Open Beta
We're opening a new tool to the public today for beta testing, called Scout.
Scout is an alert system for the things you care about in state and national government. It covers Congress, regulations across the whole executive branch, and legislation in all 50 states.
You can set up notifications for new things that match keyword searches. Or, if you find a particular bill you want to keep up with, we can notify you whenever anything interesting happens to it -- or is about to.
Just to emphasize, this is a beta - it functions well and looks good, but we're really hoping to hear from the community on how we can make it stronger. You can give us feedback by using the Feedback link at the top of the site, or by writing directly to scout@sunlightfoundation.com.
Continue readingKent State student journalists have tough time prying open TV political ad files
Trying to get FCC records at Cleveland TV Stations from Karl Idsvoog on Vimeo.
Days before the Federal Communication Commission's closely-watched Friday vote on requiring local television stations to put political advertising information online, a group of Ohio college students made a powerful argument for why the commissioners should buck the pressure from the broadcasting industry and vote aye. Just look at the above video.
At issue is whether the stations should post online detailed information on political ad buys. Such information is currently available only in paper files that must be accessed in person and under supervision from ...
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 readingHow the DATA Act has changed
Over the last year, the DATA Act has improved significantly as it has gone through the legislative process — and... View Article
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