The New York Times reported yesterday about a bold and far-reaching investigation underway by the Office of Congressional Ethics that... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Arc90′s Readability
Nicholas Carr of Wired recently wrote an interesting piece on how constant internet usage potentially “shatters focus, rewires brains.” In... View Article
Continue readingParty Time Shows Fundraising While Legislating is Widespread
Today the New York Times reports that the Office on Congressional Ethics (OCE) is continuing to dig in to its... View Article
Continue readingHouse disbursement data for 2010 now online
We’ve released a cleaned up version of the House disbursements data that covers the first quarter of 2010, during which the House spent more than $339 million on salaries, expenses and equipment.
Last month we aggregated and analyzed all the data in the statement of disbursements, which the House started publishing online in a PDF format in December 2009, showing for the first time the private firms that do the most business with the House.
To make this data useful, the Sunlight Labs team had to parse the information in the PDF so it could be searched, sorted and ...
DeMint blocking secret hold bill
There seems to be a recurring theme with transparency legislation. Senators just love to block these types of bills. There... View Article
Continue readingHouse passes bill to ban ‘state sponsors of terrorism’ from lobbying
The House of Representatives passed a bill earlier this month that would prohibit countries deemed “state sponsors of terrorism” by... View Article
Continue readingAvandia case highlights need for FDA transparency
This week’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee’s meeting on the controversial diabetes drug Avandia, which the New York... View Article
Continue readingThe Health 2.0 Developer Challenge
The Health 2.0 Developer Challenge launched last week, and I've been embarrassingly remiss at mentioning it. Hopefully, many of you are already in the loop and excited about the project. Let me take a second and fill the rest of you in.
There are a lot of app contests and hackathons and dev challenges around these days. But I think this is one worth getting excited about, for three reasons.
Continue readingCongress Needs to Respond to MMS Failures
Just as the Administration needs to incorporate transparency into their response to the failures of the Minerals Management Service, Congress... View Article
Continue readingWhere is the Government’s Blowout Preventer?
Just as there is now a new cap being fitted over the leaking oil well is patching a mechanical failure,... View Article
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