In the wake of the Countrywide/Dodd/Conrad scandal, the six members of the Senate Ethics Committee are cosponsoring an amendment to... View Article
Continue readingIn Broad Daylight: NYC2DC
Back from PDF Conference in NYC; how is Tom Ridge like Adil Hoxha?; more mortgage disclosures; congressional ethics office empty;... View Article
Continue readingLawmaker Profiler on Politiker.com
On Monday, the New York Observer installed the new version of Sunlight’s Lawmaker Profiler on their politics section. They even... View Article
Continue readingA Researcher’s Paradise
Sure the temperature is rising in D.C. but it’s like Christmas morning for public policy geeks when groups like the... View Article
Continue readingDid Congress write a prescription for Chantix?
Last week, some members of Congress called for an immediate suspension of a drug testing program administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs after ABC News and the Washington Times reported that one of the side effects a specific drug that helps kick the smoking habit could possibly be suicide.
The drug Chantix, manufactured by Pfizer, has been used in programs by the Department of Veterans Affairs as a smoking cessation drug. The ABC report revealed that, "mentally distressed veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are being recruited for government tests on pharmaceutical drugs linked to suicide and other violent side ...
Continue readingPDF Day 2
PDF on Day Two is great. Great morning presentations by Lessig and Zittrain (two folks whose work I already know)... View Article
Continue readingPersonal Democracy Forum in NY
Sunlight’s blogging will likely be light the early part of this week. Many of us are attending the Personal Democracy... View Article
Continue readingWeb Townhall Meeting
Rep. John Culberson announced an Web town meeting, next Thursday at 8.30 PM, via twitter. Here’s the tweet: johnculberson First,... View Article
Continue readingOpenCongress: New Features
The folks at OpenCongress, a Sunlight joint project with Participatory Politics Foundation, are making great strides at building the place... View Article
Continue readingA little digging into FEC disclosures
A while back, Jim Geraghty of the Campaign Spot wrote a pair of interesting posts, the first noting that, during his 2000 campaign to unseat Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., Barack Obama took "on credit card debt to finance his effort," while the second raised additional questions but seemed to put the credit card issue to rest, by quoting a New York Times article that looked at the campaign committee's finances:
When Mr. Obama decided to run for Congress in 2000 against the former Black Panther Bobby Rush, he used a $9,500 personal loan to help finance the campaign ...Continue reading
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