BIZ SAYS DROP CONTRACTOR DISCLOSURE EO —The Hill: “A coalition of more than 80 business groups told President Obama to... View Article
Continue readingImproving Sunlight’s Site with Issue Pages
Today we're officially unveiling a new 'Issues We Cover' page along with improvements to our site search.
Continue readingSunrise (5/17/11)
NEW SUPER PAC PUSHES THE LIMITS —Sunlight: “A Super PAC formed by campaign finance law challenger and Indiana attorney James... View Article
Continue readingTransbearency Strikes Back, or Citizens United and the Case for Comedy
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Continue readingOpen Government Hackathon at RailsConf
This Wednesday, May 18, Sunlight Labs will be at RailsConf in Baltimore, running an Open Government Hackathon at the event's official unconference, BohConf. We'll have several projects that need your help, and of course, you're welcome to bring your own. The hackathon runs from 1:50 to 5:15 pm.
- I (Luigi) will be leading development on shoring up the Ruby gems for Sunlight's various APIs: Congress, Transparency Data, and Real Time Congress. Eric will lead an effort to expand the Real Time Congress API with data provided by the new House website. Our friends from Code for America, Dan, Erik, Ryan, and Scott will be in attendance, working on a Ruby gem for local civic hacking.
But that's not the only #opengov activity happening at RailsConf. Dan from Code for America is giving a lightning keynote on Thursday morning. It'll be livestreamed at 9:50 am ET. Also, check out BohConf's schedule for more unconference fun. It should be a good time.
Continue readingNew Bopp Super PAC wants Republicans to help it raise unlimited funds
A Super PAC formed by campaign finance law challenger and Indiana attorney James Bopp Jr. intends to harness the fundraising efforts of Republican Party committees and candidates to raise unlimited contributions from individuals and corporations to be spent influencing elections in the 2012 campaign.
The concept behind Republican Super PAC, which will be introduced to party officials at a Republican National Committee meeting in Dallas this Wednesday, is for G.O.P. candidates and party officials at the national, state and local levels to steer contributions that they can't accept under federal or state election law to the newly ...
Continue readingSunrise (5/16/11)
REVOLVING DOOR FCC COMMISH FACES RESTRICTIONS —Philadelphia Inquirer: “The new senior vice president of government affairs for Comcast Corp. in... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Status Updates with PixelPipe
PixelPipe is a very handy application for quickly posting content to many social media platforms in one go. For example,... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Weekly Round-up: Pennsylvania campaign finance reform in jeopardy
A search using our Influence explorer, for Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, reveals that between 2003-2010, the governor received a total... View Article
Continue readingStephen Colbert, the time has come: Help Sunlight follow the money
Stephen Colbert, host of The Colbert Report, is in Washington today to register his new Super PAC with the FEC.... View Article
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