We got a lot of great comments and discussions happening from our redesign of USA.gov, so we thought we’d continue the series and call it “Redesigning the Government.” At Sunlight, we deal a lot with FEC information, both internally and through one of our grantees, OpenSecrets.org so we thought we’d take a look at prototyping some ways that the FEC could better disclose campaign finance information through the Web.
Continue readingUnraveling Rangel
Rep. Charles Rangel, chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, failed to report purchases, sales or his ownership... View Article
Continue readingCall Congress from Your Browser
"Using Yeas and Nays, a citizen can connect via phone to speak with her representatives, and the resulting shift keeps a record of the call located on the website that informed it." Uses Sunlight Labs API. Link
Continue readingOMBWatch Analyzes House and Senate Stimulus
OMBWatch has prepared a detailed analysis of the accountability and transparency provisions form the House and Senate versions of the... View Article
Continue readingOne More Post on Daschle, Revolving Door
This Feb. 2nd Newshour segment is from before Tom Daschle dropped out, but the discussion regarding the revolving door and... View Article
Continue readingU.K.’s Directgov.com rises to the occasion
Leena Rao at TechCrunch reports on how Directgov.com, the British government’s online portal providing information and services from across government,... View Article
Continue readingWhat We’ve Learned
So, Tom Daschle ended his bid to be Secretary of Health and Humans Services after a weekend of revelations showing... View Article
Continue readingYouTube Citizen Journalism Challenge! (UPDATE)
Earlier I had posted about the Youtube Challenge for citizen journlists. Well the winner is in, Arturo Perez did an... View Article
Continue readingLocal Sunlight
Every week I climb into the depths of the local political blogosphere to find the Sunlight. I use this series... View Article
Continue readingFederal Agencies and Web 2.0
Elizabeth Newell, at GovExec.com, writes about how federal agencies are beginning to stick their toes in the social media pool.... View Article
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