Sunlight’s new Lobbyist Registration Tracker is a great new tool to let users track who is lobbying about what issues.... View Article
Continue readingTwo Members Appear to Break Rules on First Day of New Congress
Two House Republican members, Reps. Mike Fitzpatrick and Pete Sessions, missed their swearing in on Wednesday as they attended a... View Article
Continue readingIntroducing the Lobbyist Registration Tracker
After the Nov. 2, 2010 election, lobbyists filed more than 350 new registration forms, disclosing their hiring by clients seeking... View Article
Continue readingNew tool tracks new lobbyists and their clients
After the Nov. 2, 2010 election, lobbyists filed more than 350 new registration forms, disclosing their hiring by clients seeking to influence everything from the federal budget to Kyrgyz government negotiations with the United States to supply jet fuel to airbases in Manas, Kyrgyzstan and Bagram, Afghanistan.
As members of the 112th Congress begin work, special interests will start adapting to the new political landscape in part by hiring new lobbyists to work the corridors of power on Capitol Hill. To follow those adaptations, the Sunlight Foundation is launching the Lobbyist Registration Tracker, a tool for tracking newly hired lobbyists ...
Continue readingFurther Wall Street to Washington revolving door thoughts
In the post below I noted that the selection of William Daley as chief of staff to the President (now... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Google Refine
Kicking off TFT for 2011 is guest blogger Rebekah Heacock, co-director of the Technology for Transparency Network and a Project... View Article
Continue readingThe revolving door shouldn’t spin again for William Daley
President Obama is likely to select former Commerce Secretary and current JPMorgan Chase executive William Daley as his next chief... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Weekly Round-up: Texas battles EPA
The new year kicked off with some major changes in some states. For some, the initial steps of introducing new... View Article
Continue readingThe House Rules: 112th vs 111th — a Redline
Before the holiday break, I compared the draft House Rules for the 112th Congress against the House Rules for the... View Article
Continue readingNew session of lobbying kicks off today
The launch of the 112th Congress means the beginning of another session of lobbying. There are a number of important... View Article
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