Every week I climb into the depths of the local political blogosphere to find the Sunlight. I use this series... View Article
Continue readingLocal Spotlight: The Importance of Being Transparency
In Connecticut, Red Notes from a Blue State has a post comparing how advanced Florida transparency laws are to Connecticut.... View Article
Continue readingAnother Proposal to Read the Bill, but is the Timing Right?
Today, Senator Bunning introduced S. Res. 307, a resolution that would require legislation to be publicly posted online, in its... View Article
Continue readingBoehner Asks for More Committee Transparency
Republican Minority Leader John Boehner is planning on introducing a resolution that would require House committees to post “within 24... View Article
Continue readingFollow the (Airport) Money
Sunlight’s First Android App
I want to invite all of you with Android phones to try out a public beta of an Android app that I've been working on inside the Labs. It's called "Congress", and it's a pocket Congressional directory. It takes full advantage of the Sunlight Labs API to show you up-to-date info about members of Congress, and to pull in updates from members' Twitter and YouTube accounts.
Install the app from your phone by scanning the QRcode to the right.
It's a small app, really, but there are several other cool features.
Continue readingEthics Tab Dump
Rep. Charles Rangel has been taking heat for a few years now for his improperly filed financial disclosures and taxes.... View Article
Continue readingEight Senators Want the Public to Read the Health Care Bill
Yesterday a group of moderate democratic senators (and one independent) sent a letter (reprinted below) to Majority Leader Harry Reid... View Article
Continue readingAsk Rep. George Miller About Health Care
Tomorrow I’ll have the honor of moderating a conference call for bloggers with Rep. George Miller on the future of... View Article
Continue readingDigging into recovery.gov data
We're playing with the new stimulus data released last week on the Recovery.gov Web site - analyzing the data, trying to find out which states are receiving the most money and what kinds of projects are receiving the most money. Data on contracts can be downloaded from FPDS site and the grants and loans from the USAspending Web site.
Although there is an easy way of downloading contracts data from FPDS, those wanting either grants or loans data will have to rely on the USASpending site, which allows downloads of slices of the data, from each agency or state ...
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