If you read Monday’s New York Times story about how many lobbyists are de-registering in the face of new filing... View Article
Continue readingDon’t Give Grades Till the End of the Class
With notable exceptions, such as the White House visitor logs being released, the efforts we have seen towards openness are still almost entirely intentions, plans, and initiative rather than outcomes that have tangibly resulted in more actual transparency.
Continue readingSo, you want to know who is visiting the White House?
Last week, the White House released another set of visitor logs online and in a format that can be parsed... View Article
Continue readingWhite House Takes Huge Step Toward Transparency
Early this morning, the White House took a huge step toward a more transparent government by announcing a historic new... View Article
Continue readingWhite House Releases List of Health Care Lobbyists, Execs
The White House made public a list of health care lobbyists and executives who have visited the White House one... View Article
Continue readingWhite House Publishes Staff Salaries
As ProPublica just pointed out on Twitter, the White House today released staff salaries, as they do each year. Since... View Article
Continue readingLunchtime Link Round-Up
Some open government/transparency posts from around the web: The Food and Drug Administration, in conjunction with their Transparency Task Force,... View Article
Continue readingNew Lobbying Rules Round-Up
By now, you may have seen that the White House has updated the stimulus lobbying rules to expand the communications... View Article
Continue readingFive Day Fail, Again
There have been a few campaign promise flops from President Obama (example: Armenian genocide), but none so obviously wrong-headed as... View Article
Continue readingThe Insufficient Lobbying Disclosure Act
Yesterday, John Wonderlich wrote an important post here about Sunlight’s meeting with the White House (with a bunch of other... View Article
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