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Continue readingDo the Rangel and Waters trials show that the ethics process has been strengthened?
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Continue readingResearching Shelby’s earmarks using Poligraft
Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., requested
earmarks for at least ten companies that have been donors to the
lawmaker in this election cycle. Five of those companies have been
long-term contributors to Shelby.
Shelby, who is on the Senate
appropriations committee, requested more than $54.3 million for these
ten companies and has received more than $69,000 in campaign funds from
their employees and PACs since 2008, a quick analysis of his online
earmark requests using Sunlight's newest tool Poligraft.com shows.
Employees
of Radiance Technologies, for which Shelby requested $5 million in
earmarks, have given the lawmaker more ...
Building Poligraft
I'm happy to announce the newest project from Sunlight Labs, Poligraft. A utility built on top of Transparency Data, Poligraft takes in a block of text, parses it for entities like politicians and corporations, and returns a result set representing the political influence contained in that text. I won't dwell on the features -- read Ellen Miller's announcement blog post and the about page for more information. What I want to talk about instead is the development process.
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PolitiWidgets are easy to use, customizable, political infographics you can embed into your article or blog post, offering your readers... View Article
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