From the New York Times: New York’s top court officials will bar the state’s hundreds of elected judges from hearing... View Article
Continue readingOrganizations Responding to Oversight Chairman Include Major Lobbies, Big Contributors
In December Oversight Committee chairman Darrell Issa sent letters to 142 organizations soliciting suggestions for regulations that were cumbersome and... View Article
Continue readingLobbyists Contribution Reports Should be Filed in Real Time
Up and down K Street today, lobbyists are filing contribution reports detailing campaign contributions they made to Members of Congress.... View Article
Continue readingSen. Scott Brown’s campaign requests FEC approval to buy his book
Republican Senator Scott Brown of Massachussetts wants to thank his campaign donors with a signed copy of his yet to be released autobiography. And in order to do so, he's asked the Federal Election Commission to allow him to buy several thousand of copies of his own book using his campaign committee's funds.
But Brown says he doesn't plan to profit from this. According to the advisory opinion request he'll either not receive royalties from this purchase or he will donate all the proceeds he receives from this purchase to charity.
Brown also plans to mix ...
Continue readingThe Death of the FEC
Rick Hasen has a must read column on the death of the Federal Election Commission and the slow erosion of... View Article
Continue readingHappy Anniversary Citizens United
Friday marks the one year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision giving corporations the right to make unlimited... View Article
Continue readingCitizens United ROI
While this Los Angeles Times article focuses more on the departure of Sen. Russ Feingold and what that means for... View Article
Continue readingToo Big To Fail: Is the financial sector too big in Washington?
Thomas Hoenig, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, recently penned an op-ed in the New York... View Article
Continue readingStatelight, Transparency in a Box: Pt. 4(a)
This is a continuation of Statelight, our series on advocating for open government change on a local level. Depending on... View Article
Continue readingThe Senate Should Change its Rules for Easy Transparency Fixes
At the beginning of each new Congress, both the House and the Senate have the opportunity to update their respective... View Article
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