In continuing with the “Google Reader is Still Relevant” meme (read Parts I and II here) I wanted to make... View Article
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In case you missed it, last night some-time South Carolina Presidential candidate and super PAC founder Stephen Colbert gave a... View Article
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Sunlight couldn’t be in better company in the following video shot by the Omidyar Network, a significant funder of our... View Article
Continue readingBenchmarks for Measuring Success for Legislative Data Transparency
The following are my notes for remarks I delivered at the House Legislative Data and Transparency Conference on February 2, 2012.... View Article
Continue readingSuper PACs and Secret Money Undermine Elections
The New York Times looked at this week’s Super PAC filings with the FEC and demonstrated—again—what we knew would be... View Article
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Many of us from Sunlight have been at the House’s legislative data conference today, as Daniel has noted on the... View Article
Continue readingTester and Cochran offer Electronic Filing Amendment to the STOCK Act
Senators Tester and Cochran, champions of common sense legislation that would require senators and senate candidates to electronically file their... View Article
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As the STOCK Act keeps marching through the Senate, on the heels of a State of the Union push from... View Article
Continue readingThe presidential super PACs: five takeaways
Note: the analysis below is based on initial data pulled from the FEC’s website. As more complete data become available,... View Article
Continue readingThe News Without Transparency: Federal Cash Flow to Nonexistent Districts
In 2009 the Washington Times reported that an investigation conducted by researchers at the Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity... View Article
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