Blog : Sunlight Foundation

Lobbyists help lower corporate tax rates for companies investing in alternative energy

by Paul Blumenthal Feb 10, 2011 9:00 am

The alternative energy heavy NextEra Energy already had six different firms helping it lobby on tax policy when it brought... View Article

Election Law Getting Interested In Lobbying Reform

by Paul Blumenthal Feb 9, 2011 4:39 pm

An important piece from Heather Gerken: Lobbying has been neglected by most people who write in the field (including me).... View Article

Dodd May Become Lobbyist

by Paul Blumenthal Feb 9, 2011 3:12 pm

After promising that he would not become a lobbyist rumors are swirling that former Sen. Chris Dodd is in negotiations... View Article

Business community has its guns aimed at the environment, financial reforms

by Anu Narayanswamy

investigations

Feb 9, 2011 12:51 pm

In a bid to roll back laws and regulations, some passed and some proposed, in the last two years, business conglomerates have targeted a handful of federal agencies -- with the Environmental Protection Agency receiving the bulk of the attention -- in reply to a request by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., calling for industry feedback on which rules the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee should investigate.

Issa, the Chairman of the House Government Oversight Committee released close to 2000 pages of letters, research studies, expert testimonials and comments addressed to the executive bodies in charge of the rule making. The documents ...

The Real Time Congress API

by Eric Mill

technology

Feb 9, 2011 10:33 am

Today we're making available the Real Time Congress API, a service we've been working on for several months, and will be continuing to expand.

The Real Time Congress API (RTC) is a RESTful API over the artifacts of Congress, kept up to date in as close to real time as possible. It consists of several live feeds of data, available in JSON or XML. These feeds are filterable and sortable and sliceable in all sorts of different ways, and you can read the docs to see how.

RTC replaces and deprecates the Drumbone API, which is no longer recommended for use.

Sunrise (2/9/11)

by Paul Blumenthal Feb 9, 2011 8:18 am

PARTYTIME FOR CPAC —Sunlight: “During the first two days of the three-day conference, Republicans have planned at least three dozen... View Article

Reforming Congress: The good, the bad, and the ugly

by Daniel Schuman Feb 8, 2011 12:12 pm

On Monday, February 14, the Advisory Committee on Transparency will host a panel discussion entitled Reforming Congress: The good, the... View Article

What’s Going on in the Labs

by Josh Ruihley

technology

Feb 8, 2011 12:01 pm

Project Updates

MediaSync

MediaSync got a major upgrade and a Dirty Dancing name thanks to Jeremy and a few others in the Django community. It's incredibly flexible now and definitely work a look if you're in need of a media deployment solution for your Django projects.

Congress API

James spent a little time last month to update the data in the Congress API to get it ready for the 112th Congress. More information on the update can be found here.