Here at the Sunlight Foundation mothership, when we talk about local, we tend to be talking about the issues faced... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Make Images Social with Thinglink
Thinglink is a new service that adds a level of social engagement to static images through tagging. Thinglink works with... View Article
Continue reading2Day in #OpenGov 6/24/2011
Collected today by Policy Intern Jacob Hutt. Here is Friday’s look at transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills... View Article
Continue readingFEC proposes rule to allow federal officeholders, candidates to appear at Super PAC fundraisers
In response to a request by a pair of Democratic Super PACs, the Federal Election Commission has proposed a new rule that would allow members of Congress, federal candidates and national political party officials to appear and speak at fundraisers for independent expenditure-only committees, or Super PACs, but would bar them from asking corporations, labor unions or individuals for the unlimited contributions that fueled the spending of these outside groups in the 2010 election cycle.
The FEC issued the proposed rule, which will be considered at a commission meeting on June 30, after James Bopp Jr., the conservative lawyer who ...
Continue readingAmerican Crossroads reports contributions of $3.8 million this year
American Crossroads, the Republican group that spent more than any other Super PAC in the 2010 elections, has raised $3.8 million since January for the 2012 election cycle, according to a report submitted to the FEC on Thursday.
The group had to file the report because it spent money in the special election for New York's 26th District House seat. Crossroads spent about $690,000 on independent expenditures there, almost all of it against the opponents of the Republican candidate, Jane Corwin. Democrat Kathleen Hochul won the race. American Crossroads also spent money on Tea Party candidate Jack ...
Continue readingShell moves closer to drilling in Arctic, EPA moves closer to less regulatory authority
On Wednesday, the House passed a bill 253-166 to limit the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency and expedite the... View Article
Continue readingSunlight weekly Round-up: Of Tax breaks and Transparency
In an interview with Newsweek, former U.S. President, Bill Clinton suggested lowering corporate tax rates as one of the ways... View Article
Continue reading“Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act” Advances to the House Floor
Legislation that would require copies of congressionally mandated reports to be published online by GPO cleared a major hurdle when... View Article
Continue readingDemocratic Super PAC raises individual, union, corporate and Super PAC contributions
The House Majority PAC, one of the two Democratic Super PACs currently seeking permission from the Federal Election Commission to have federal candidates and party officials solicit funds for them, has disclosed its first batch of donors in the 2012 election cycle. Among the big givers are stalwart Democratic donors, including unions like the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees ($200,000) and the Communications Workers of America ($50,000), individuals like Fred Eychaner ($100,000) and George Soros ($75,000), trial law firm Kazan McClain Lyons Greenwood & Harley ($10,000), tech company Integrated Archive Systems ($25,000 ...
Continue readingH. Approps OKs E-Gov Funding at $13m, Bill Advances to House
The Electronic Government Fund would likely receive around $13m for FY2012 if Congress agrees with today’s 27-21 vote by the... View Article
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