Come Christmas Eve, when the Senate is likely to wrap up its work for the year, one piece of legislation... View Article
Continue readingThey Don’t Expect Us to Care About the Roberts Amendment
The Roberts amendment would violate the privacy of donors to nonprofit organizations by forcing their names to be made public any time the nonprofit decided to file an ethics complaint against a sitting senator.
Continue readingThis Week In Transparency – June 26, 2009
Here are a few of the more interesting media mentions of Sunlight and our friends and allies from the week:... View Article
Continue readingEnsign Tried to Stymie Ethics Committee, Calls Come for Committee to Investigate
Since Wednesday, when the sex scandal engulfing Sen. John Ensign morphed into a public expense scandal, we’ve learned quite a... View Article
Continue readingSenate Obstinacy on Electronic Filing
David Waldman (aka Kagro X) posted a very good piece on Congress Matters regarding congressional transparency and the bureaucratic arguments... View Article
Continue readingSen. Merkley Endorses S. 482!
Sen. Jeff Merkley recently signed up as the 36th cosponsor of S. 482, the Senate e-filing bill. We’re excited that... 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 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 readingSenate E-Filing in Politico
The campaign to pass S. 482, the Senate e-filing bill, continues apace with a great mention in the Politico today.... 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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