Here is Wednesday’s look at transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency-related events. News... View Article
Continue readingSunrise (5/25/11)
POTTER: FEC FAILURES AND A CONFUSED SUPREME COURT —Bloomberg: “Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has been had. “A campaign finance... View Article
Continue readingKundra on e-gov cuts: no project unaffected
“No project will go unaffected,” said federal CIO Vivek Kundra in a letter on the e-gov funding cuts sent to... View Article
Continue readingRoundup of Transparency Legislation Introduced
As the daily “2Day in #OpenGov” round up has been on hiatus for the last two weeks, here are the... View Article
Continue readingThe Fresh Prince of Capitol Hill?
Sunlight's eagle-eyed developer, Luigi Montanez, took the above screenshot of the official video feed from the House Oversight Committee. It raises the question, who is watching the watchers watching Fresh Prince?
Continue readingMajor banks use one lobbyist to team up on Dodd-Frank
The international law firm, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton LLP, is lobbying Congress on behalf of three of the world’s biggest financial institutions regarding the derivatives market -- one of the major issues tackled by the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation, according to disclosure forms filed this year.
A lawyer with the firm, Edward Rosen is lobbying Congress on behalf of Credit Suisse, BNP Paribas and Wells Fargo regarding the Commodity Futures Trade Commission’s (CFTC) proposal to regulate swaps dealers, increase transparency in the derivatives market and force standardized derivatives into a clearinghouse to ultimately lower the risk incurred from ...
Continue reading2Day in #OpenGov 5/24/2011
Here is Tuesday’s look at transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency-related events. News... View Article
Continue readingRecap: RailsConf 2011
Last week at RailsConf, Sunlight held an Open Government Hackathon at the event's official unconference, BohConf. We worked on a few projects:
- The Ruby gem for the Sunlight Congress API was updated. We added support for new fields on the Legislator resource and removed support for deprecated features. The developers behind search.usa.gov (a Rails app!) were there, and led development on a Ruby gem that wraps the site's product recalls API. Dan Melton from Code for America led development on a Ruby gem that wraps the Small Business Administration's API.
Speaking of Dan, he gave a keynote at RailsConf the next day:
Thanks to all who made it out and contributed!
Continue readingMagna Carta 2.0: a transparency research agenda
Last week I attended the first Global Conference on Transparency Research at Rutgers University-Newark, which brought together two hundred transparency... View Article
Continue reading2Day in #OpenGov 5/23/2011
It’s been awhile, but the daily roundup is back! Here is Monday’s look at the week’s transparency-related news items, congressional... View Article
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