The Federation of American Scientists has just launched a new collection of reports from the (currently) defunct Office of Technology... View Article
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The Clerk of the House and the Secretary of the Senate are loosening their interpretation of lobbyist disclosure provisions on... View Article
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It’s been a bad two weeks for Ways and Means Committee chairman Charlie Rangel. Last week, the Washington Post and... View Article
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GOOD Magazine has a knack for taking political stories or data and turning them into to clever images. In this... View Article
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The Congressional Management Foundation has been doing the yeoman’s work on addressing the problem of constituent communications. Through their Communicating... View Article
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A large contingent of Sunlighters are heading to Austin this week for Netroots Nation, the 3rd annual gathering of Kos... View Article
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Blogger, e-government guru and fellow panelist at PDF, David Stephenson, writing at The Huffington Post profiles a speech he’s to... View Article
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Day before yesterday, The New York Times looks at Sen. Joe Lieberman’s growing estrangement from his (former?) Democratic colleagues. The... View Article
Continue readingLobbyists Funding Conventions
The Campaign Finance Institute (CFI) released figures today showing that the private donors to the two major party conventions have... View Article
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Some 76 members of Congress provide at least some disclosure of their fiscal year 2009 earmark requests online, citizen researchers... View Article
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