LOBBYISTS FIGHT AS NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE THREATENED —NYT: “Pete V. Domenici, then a Republican senator from New Mexico, was looking for... View Article
Continue readingFormer Ensign Aide Indicted On Lobbying Ban Violation
The Justice Department just indicted Doug Hampton, a former aide to Sen. John Ensign, for lobbying Ensign’s office prior to... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Weekly Round-up: States to be measured for susceptibility to corruption
When it comes to money in politics, Sunlight’s Poligraft helps you see the relationships between organizations and the people in... View Article
Continue readingOMB Watch’s Six Principles of Federal Spending Transparency
Last Friday, OMB Watch’s Sam Rosen-Amy wrote about their six principles of federal spending transparency, in response to the oversight... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Tell Your Story with Storify
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Continue readingStill No Earmark Moratorium
I’ve been over this before: there is no earmark moratorium. USA Today just proves that even more with this report... View Article
Continue readingUpdate on House disbursements: A few notes on how to use the data
We've received a few calls about the House disbursements data we published, questioning the total amount spent by various offices. The House Committee on Administration provides two sets of numbers: summary numbers for each office's spending by quarter, including a grand total and a breakdown by category, and detailed files listing every disbursement reported for that quarter. There is a discrepancy between the totals reported in the summary section and the totals arrived at by adding all of the individual disbursements reported in the detail view of our downloadable data. Despite the discrepancy, a review of the data ...
Continue readingThe Day in Transparency 3/24/2011
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 readingReporting: Health Care Waivers and Health Care Lobbying
Sarah Dorsey on the Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group site posted yesterday about the continued health care reform lobbying. Her post... View Article
Continue readingSunrise (3/24/11)
TREASURY, GOP REBUFFS TECH LOBBYING PUSH —Bloomberg: “The top Republican tax writers in the U.S. Congress aren’t endorsing a call... View Article
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