Yesterday, we announced a campaign to pass S. 482, the Senate electronic filing bill. There are two tacks to this... View Article
Continue readingDo we need a GetSatisfaction for Congress?
On Sunlight's "twitter lobbying" efforts and building a more effective means for communicating to congress. Do we need a GetSatisfaction.com for Congress?
Continue readingRead the Bill: Spending Bills Rushed
Yesterday President Barack Obama signed the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009, a $410 billion spending bill that funds government operations... View Article
Continue readingLooking under the TARP
Recently, as part of our work with Pew on Subsidyscope.com, we’ve been taking a close look at the performance of... View Article
Continue readingSave Trees–Pass S. 482
We’ve written about why the Senate should pass S. 482, requiring electronic disclosure of campaign finance records, because the public ... View Article
Continue readingBerkman’s New Media Cloud
Earlier today, Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, teamed with Thomson Reuters, launched Media Cloud, a new project that... View Article
Continue readingHelp Lobby Congress on S. 482!
Update: Please send your thanks to @Barbara_Boxer and @clairecmc (Sen. Claire McCaskill) for agreeing to cosponsor S. 482. The legend... View Article
Continue readingMaybe 482 is a Lucky Number
It’s like déjà vu all over again. During the 110th Congress, Senator Russ Feingold (Wis.) introduced S. 223, the Senate... View Article
Continue readingAnother guilty plea in Abramoff case
Roll Call's Jennifer Yachnin reports:
Former Senate aide Ann Copland pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to one count of conspiracy to commit fraud, acknowledging she accepted more than $25,000 in gifts including tickets to sporting events and concerts from disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his associates.Copland, a longtime aide to Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) who left in 2008 to join Mississippi Public Broadcasting, has agreed to cooperate with Justice Department attorneys in their long-running investigation into lobbying activities on Capitol Hill. Copland is among the 18 individuals, including the incarcerated Abramoff, to be charged with wrongdoing ...
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Not going to SxSW? Tip: Here’s how to make twitter not annoying
A lot of folks from the Sunlight Foundation will be heading to SxSW Interactive and we hope members of the Sunlight Labs community will follow us on twitter and find us wherever we're at to meet up. It'd be great to put some faces to the names of the people in our community.
For those that aren't going to SxSW though, and do use twitter, SxSW represents an annual flood of conference information that pollutes your twitter stream with stuff you don't care about. Last year, my friend and neighbor Mike for instance, ended up unfollowing all his friends on Twitter that were at SxSW because it got so overwhelming.
This tip will only help out Mac users, but I've experimented with it and found it useful.
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