This week I have highlights from California, Hawaii, Delaware, Idaho, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Mexico.
Continue readingFull Faith and Credit
As the Deposit Insurance Fund – the fee-based safety net for customers of failed banks – shrinks alarmingly, regulators have... View Article
Continue readingPro Publica posts executive branch financial disclosures
Available here, thanks to our friends at Pro Publica. A very handy tool. The Office of Government Ethics should really post these online, but until they do, Pro Publica is your best source.
Continue readingDownload TCS’s earmark request spreadsheet
Our friends at Taxpayers for Common Sense announce that they have a downloadable spreadsheet with what looks to me to be the definitive list of links to earmark request disclosures from House members. The Hill gives some good examples of how hard it is to find the disclosures.
I'm looking at some of the actual requests today instead of playing find the earmark list. One of the things I've always wondered is what percentage of the earmarks that members request are brought to their attention by registered lobbyists.
Continue readingEvery Obama Administration Personal Financial Disclosure
ProPublica went through the process of requesting all of the personal financial disclosures from the Obama administration and has posted... View Article
Continue readingSenate Candidate 5 Meets the Office of Congressional Ethics
Remember “Candidate 5” from the Blagojevich carnival? And remember the Office of Congressional Ethics from attempts by Congress to add... View Article
Continue readingRedesigning the Government: Lobbyist Disclosure
John Wonderlich and I teamed up to show how Sunlight envisions a future executive branch lobbying disclosure site. Check it out on the Sunlight Foundation blog.
Continue readingA Vision of Real Time Lobbying Disclosure
Mockups of Lobbying Disclosure Demonstrate Potential for Real Time, Online When we talk about real time, online disclosure, as we... View Article
Continue readingMaking sense of online earmark disclosures
As noted immediately below, House members started disclosing, on their official Web sites, their requests for earmarks (which members use to allocate federal funds for specific projects and recipients) last Friday. Over the weekend, I started looking at the disclosures, more to see what format the disclosures were in rather than whether they were online by a certain time. Since Roll Call first reported the changes, this has been a concern of mine.
If members used the same format for disclosure, it would be a simple matter for us or anyone else to download all the data and put them ...
Continue readingPeople Are Talking About Electronic Filing
Some people will say that Senate Bill 482, the Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act, which would require the Senate to... View Article
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