Today, Sunlight is sending the following letter (see below) to the Government Accountability Office, or GAO. We are urging them... View Article
Continue readingWhite House releases 2010 financial disclosures for staffers
Last week we requested personal financial disclosures for a few senior White House staffers. These documents list the assets officials own--property, stocks and mutual funds. The documents can be requested on the White House website by clicking here..
In addition to assets, these disclosures also tell you who gave these high profile staffers gifts or paid for their travel. For instance, on page 16 of Rahm Emanuel’s disclosure, we can see that he received tickets to the Bruce Springsteen concert last summer. We previously reported that 18 members of Congress benefited from fundraisers held at the concert (for details ...
White House Adds Web Access to Personal Financial Disclosures
Sunlight has long advocated for online disclosure of Personal Financial Disclosure Forms (PFDs) of political appointees subject to Senate confirmation.... View Article
Continue readingWhat the MSM in Learning About MOC
In Paul’s roundup this morning he mentions several of the reports that came from the release earlier this week of... View Article
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