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Back in January I blogged here about the White House failing to fulfill a campaign promise to put bills online... View Article
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ProPublica went through the process of requesting all of the personal financial disclosures from the Obama administration and has posted... View Article
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Weekend before this most recent one, Government 2.0 Camp took place here in Washington and by all accounts it was... View Article
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The GAO is bound by law under the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 to file an annual... View Article
Continue readingGillibrand’s Sunlight Report Pulls Back the Curtain
Back when Kirsten Gillibrand was elected to the House of Representatives in 2006, she promised to post her daily schedule... View Article
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