As I noted yesterday, happily, the Transition team announced over the weekend they have now adopted the most open Creative... View Article
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ComputerWorld interviewed James Allen, the IT manager at the Federal Election Commission (FEC), a month ago and reposted it yesterday.... View Article
Continue readingChange.gov meets Creative Commons
This is great news. Over the weekend, the Obama–Biden Transition team switched the copyright policy for their Web site, Change.gov,... View Article
Continue readingMitchell Wade’s Five Congressmen
Seth Hettena spills the beans on the names of the five lawmakers that Mitchell Wade provided information on to federal... View Article
Continue readingIn Norm Dicks’ Name
New contribution disclosure rules provide some transparency in the world of “soft” influence seeking. In this case, these disclosure rules... View Article
Continue readingHold Put On Bailout Oversight Office
According to TPM Muckraker, a Senate Republican placed a secret hold on the nomination of Neil Barofsky to lead the... View Article
Continue readingTransparency Events – December 2008
If you happen to live in the Washington, DC area, here are a few events relating to government transparency to... View Article
Continue readingCunningham Figure’s Revelations May Imperil Other Officials
The chief witness in the investigation into former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham may have spilled the goods on more lawmakers... View Article
Continue readingChange Congress Conducts a Survey
Our friends at Change Congress have asked their members and supporters to take a survey to help them decide what... View Article
Continue readingFederal Contract Spending
Scott Amey at the Project for Government Oversight’s POGO blog writes about being positively surprised by one thing he found... View Article
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