Our friends at Taxpayers for Common Sense have collected, in one handy spot, all of their Fiscal 2009 earmark data and trenchant analyses of same. So far, the Senate (which has much laxer earmark disclosure rules) has passed more bills than the House -- we saw the same pattern last year as well, though traditionally the House had run ahead of the Senate. All the files are available as downloadable spread sheets.
Continue readingInside DNC08 via Party Time
Be sure to check out Party Time, Sunlight’s project to track parties thrown at the 2008 Democratic and Republican National... View Article
Continue readingPresidential Cribs and Personal Financial Disclosure
Since the presidential race has turned into an episode of MTV Cribs – next up, web ads with seizure inducing... View Article
Continue readingGoogle Spreadsheet and the Sunlight Labs API
James is finishing up a tweak to the Sunlight Labs API that allows for fairly sophisticated search for members of Congress, it isn't "published" yet but it is active so if you want to experiment you're welcome to try it out, but for now it is "unofficial".
Continue readingDemocratic Convention Receives More PAC Money
More political action committees are giving to the Democratic convention scheduled for next week than the Republican one, to be held in September, according to the recently disclosed lobbyists contribution data available online with the Senate Office of Pubic Records. At least six company PACs have given more than $436,000 to the Democratic National Convention Committee so far, whereas, the Republican National Convention has attracted only $55,000 from company PACs.
The convention host committees often have a list of corporate sponsors, but because they are organized as a 501(c)(3), they can receive contributions from corporations and ...
Continue readingConsuming News
The news out of the 2008 biennial news consumption survey conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and... View Article
Continue readingStevens Lashes Out in Radio Interview
TPM Muckraker captured some great audio of Sen. Ted Stevens lashing out at constituents asking questions about his current legal... View Article
Continue readingThe Last Line of Defense
Sen. Ted Stevens has served as senator from Alaska for most of his life and nearly all of the state’s... View Article
Continue readingLD-203s: Sunlight on Lobbyist Giving
It’s been almost three weeks since Washington lobbyists had to turn in their new lobbyist disclosure reports titled the LD-203.... View Article
Continue readingIt’s…………Party Time!
Today, we are launching a new Web site, Party Time, a project to track parties thrown at the 2008 Democratic... View Article
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