Seventeen years after the creation of THOMAS, Congress today launched a sleeker, more intuitive and user-friendly legislative information website, beta.congress.gov.... View Article
Continue readingPolitify digs into data to show how you would fare under candidates’ tax plans
The fall-out commentary over Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” comment has been fascinating for a number of reasons, but perhaps most... View Article
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NEWS ROUNDUP: Government Did Richardson retaliate? Rep. Laura Richardson (D-CA), who was reprimanded by the House for an ethics violation, is... View Article
Continue readingMaryland Comptroller Calls for Real-Time Disclosure
Today, in an address at Goucher College, the Comptroller of the State of Maryland, Peter Franchot, called on the governor... View Article
Continue readingTIME Names Politwoops a ‘Best Website of 2012’
We are surprised and thrilled to see that TIME Magazine named the Sunlight Foundation's Politwoops project as one of their selections for the 50 Best Websites of 2012.
Continue readingOne Step Forward Two Steps Back
Transparency advocates suffered a setback today, when the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Van Hollen v.... View Article
Continue readingFinally, comprehensive online television news archive by Internet Archive
Today, the folks at Internet Archive launched a robust online collection of more than 340,000 TV news programs from the... View Article
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NEWS ROUNDUP: Government Finally, some disclosure: Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Rand Paul (R-KY) released their financial disclosure statements over the... View Article
Continue readingJust how unequal is political voice in Washington? Very unequal
For those of us who worry about influence in politics, we know pretty well that we are not working with... View Article
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NEWS ROUNDUP: Government Safety Data First: The White House hosted the first “Safety Datapalooza” on Friday, looking at ways that freely-available... View Article
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