RSS is dead! Long live RSS! Maybe I’m old school in the social media/tech/web x.0 space — I did graduate... View Article
Continue readingChairman Issa on Transparency Sites
Federal News Radio today has an important quote from House Oversight Committee Chairman Issa: “It was one of the things... View Article
Continue readingThe Day in Transparency 4/14/2011
Here is Thursday’s look at transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency-related events. News... View Article
Continue readingThe Bill is Online
The budget deal bill is online for everyone to see. For all of the other feelings everyone has about how... View Article
Continue readingSunrise (4/14/11)
ISSA SAYS TRANSPARENCY SITES WILL STAY ONLINE —Federal News Radio: “Congressman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the Oversight and Government... View Article
Continue readingThe Day in Transparency 4/13/2011
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 readingSunlight Live covers deficit reduction
This morning the Sunlight Foundation will use its award-winning live platform, Sunlight Live (sunlightlive.com) to cover the Senate Finance Committee's hearing on deficit reduction. We'll follow that hearing with live coverage of President Obama's speech on that same topic.
This morning's hearing features three witnesses:
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Dr. J.D. Foster, Norman B. Ture Senior Fellow, Economics of Fiscal Policy, The Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC
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The Honorable David Walker, Former U.S. Comptroller General, Founder & CEO, Comeback America Initiative, Bridgeport, CT
- Dr. Alan S. Blinder, Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Co-Director; and ...
Groups Opposing Debit Card Rule Have PAC, Lobby Support
In the first two months of 2011 groups associated with a coalition opposing the implementation of new rules for debit... View Article
Continue readingSunrise (4/13/11)
PUBLIC CUT OUT OF BUDGET NEGOTIATIONS —Sunlight: “This week’s rushed and hollow congressional proceedings, as disappointing as they are, are... View Article
Continue readingConsumer database survives budget deal
The controversial online consumer complaint database launched by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in March escaped the budget axe for now, according to House legislative language released today.
The database had been targeted by freshman Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kansas, who in February attached a successful amendment (H.Amdt.159) to the appropriations bill to defund the database. Pompeo's top campaign contributor is Kansas-based Koch Industries, which had lobbied on the database when the legislation to create it was debated, as we reported last month. His chief of staff, Mark Chenoweth, formerly worked for Koch Industries and was chief ...
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