Last week, we blogged about the Digital Democracy Project, a free Web-based game for high school social studies classes. And... View Article
Continue readingSo Many Earmarks
When we launched TransparencyCorps at the end of June, we ran a few small earmark campaigns, to digitize little batches of earmark request letters that legislators had posted on their websites. These campaigns wrapped up very quickly, and at the same time, the House decided to release earmark request letters en masse, and we didn't have to do our campaigns per-legislator anymore.
Given the demonstrated interest in earmarks, we decided to run a much larger campaign, for all the earmarks released by the House Appropriations Committee, starting with those for the Commerce, Justice, and Science Subcommittee. These were released in a single massive PDF, which I split up into individual 1- or 2-page request letters.
This campaign involved 1,183 letters, and we had the campaign run for 5,537 completed tasks. Total volunteer time, as measured on TransparencyCorps: over 472 hours. That's nearly 20 man-days. Here are the results.
Continue readingMoney, Meds, and Members of Congress
I’m proud to present an independent research project by one of Sunlight Foundation’s summer semester interns, Lindsay Young. Lindsay dives... View Article
Continue readingRaising Their Ugland House: Cayman Islands Lobbies to Keep Haven Safe
Are the Inspector General’s Financial Bailout Recommendations Out of Date?
Earlier this month, the Inspector General responsible for overseeing the government’s bailout of the financial sector released an audit of... View Article
Continue readingVotersDaily: What it’s all about
About a week ago, Christopher Groskopf posted a question to the Sunlight Labs Google group. After completing a parser for North Dakota in the Fifty State Project he asked the question: "Has anyone addressed the parsing of federal schedules?"
Continue readingOpening the Window on Foreign Lobbying
Pro Publica and Sunlight Lift the Lid on Foreign Lobbying
Former government officials in the pay of foreign interests. Lobbyists introducing foreign military officials to defense contractors. Foreign agents descending... View Article
Continue readingWho Counts On Cloture?
While the guns of august rage at town halls throughout the country, pundits in Washington and staffers in Congress and... View Article
Continue readingBush DOJ emails: “30% approval makes it a lot harder to push back, unfortunately.”
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