In an internal memorandum to all Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson pronounced a commitment to transparency... View Article
Continue readingShould We Increase Lobbying Disclosure Requirements for Bailout Firms?
When bailed out companies spend money to lobby the government, should we expect greater transparency about their lobbying operations? This... View Article
Continue readingAnother Cosponsor for S. 482!
A good week for electronic filing in the Senate. Sen. Claire McCaskill becomes the second senator to cosponsor S. 482... View Article
Continue readingTransparency for Bird Strikes
Recently, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released a call for public comments on a proposed ruling barring the release of... View Article
Continue readingThree More Agencies Begin Posting Recovery Act Lobbying Contacts
Three more agencies have begun posting, or provided a place to post, communications between lobbyists and agency officials in regards... View Article
Continue readingThe FCC, Ex Parte Communications, and Lobbying for Recovery Funds
Last week, I wrote about the number of agencies complying with President Obama’s memorandum on lobbyist communications related to funds... View Article
Continue readingNew Cosponsor for S. 482!
Thanks to Sen. Olympia Snowe, we are up to 34 cosponsors on S. 482, the Senate e-filing bill! If you... View Article
Continue readingWhite House CTO: Aneesh Chopra
President Obama ended the months of speculation surrounding his creation and appointment of the first federal Chief Technology Officer (CTO)... View Article
Continue readingReaching for the Probity of Brick
Leon Wieseltier, writing about the lightness of transparency in our age, compares transparency with the visual trick of actual physical... View Article
Continue readingDodd Story Reveals Failure of Senate on Electronic Filing
This excellent Mother Jones article on Sen. Chris Dodd’s panfinancial pay-to-play party contains a hidden problem that we have focused... View Article
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