Tag Archive: Senate

Senate hears from heavy hitters on both sides of fracking debate

by Lindsay Young

investigations

Jun 19, 2012 4:39 pm

The effect on the water supply of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking -- a method for extracting heretofore hard to reach natural gas reserves -- has caught national attention, even inspiring a fiercely critical movie. Now, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works is looking into the effect of fracking on the air -- and getting an earful from witnesses from organizations on both sides of the debate with long track records in Washington's influence game..

The panel's Clean Air and Nuclear Safety subcommittee held a hearing Tuesday on recently issued Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) performance standards for reducing ...

Celebrate Sunshine Week: Shine some light on secret money in our elections

by Zubedah Nanfuka Mar 16, 2012 8:00 am

Sunshine Week presents the perfect opportunity each year to recognize the importance of transparency and open government. This year, with... View Article

The iPad Proposal: e-File for Favorite Things

by Nicko Margolies Mar 7, 2012 1:40 pm

The day of gadget envy reckoning is upon us as Apple unveils their latest iPad and it seems only natural that the Sunlight Foundation watch this media frenzy in regards to our policy proposals.

What does Kerrey bring to the Nebraska race? Ka-ching!

by Kathy Kiely Mar 1, 2012 2:06 pm

For the latest proof of the importance of money in politics, look no further than the Wednesday decision by Bob... View Article

Senators on super committee collecting less campaign cash this quarter

by Lindsay Young

investigations

Nov 4, 2011 5:46 pm

All but one Senate member on the super committee collected less campaign funds this quarter compared the previous quarter. Only Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, had a modest increase collecting a total of $85,532.

So far in this election cycle, Portman has raised $53,000 from individuals and $106,000 from PACs. Here's a compilation of all of recent PAC donations to Portman’s election committee.

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash, raised $30,654 in the third quarter of the year; that is 85% less than she raised in the second quarter. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass raised $16,135 this ...

Senate Homeland Security Committee Votes to Advance Whistleblower Protections

by PolicyFellow Oct 20, 2011 1:09 pm

Policy Fellow Matt Rumsey wrote this post. The Senate Homeland Security Committee held a business meeting yesterday morning where they... View Article

House Revamps Floor Feed

by Eric Mill

technology

Sep 27, 2011 9:47 am

Yesterday, the House of Representatives massively improved its feed of live updates from the House floor. The House Clerk has been hosting a live floor feed for a long time, but this update breaks out related bills and votes more cleanly, adds times down to the second for each update, and drastically cleans up the HTML of the page.

But most wonderfully, the cleaner HTML doesn't really matter, because they also turned on a live XML feed.

Sunlight Live to cover Dodd-Frank anniversary hearing

by Chris Zubak-Skees

investigations

Jul 20, 2011 2:06 pm

This Thursday, one year after the president signed a sweeping new financial reform bill into law, the Senate Banking Committee will ask tough questions of regulators in charge of making it real. And Sunlight will cover it live.

President Barack Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Act (officially the “Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act”) into law on July 21, 2010. The final bill made massive changes to how the financial industry is overseen, in response to a devestating fiscal crisis that stemmed in large part, experts agree, from recklessness in the financial sector.

The Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group ...