Representatives Quigley and Polis took a significant step toward improving what we know about Washington power players by introducing the... View Article
Continue readingCongress’ Printing and Library Committees Get Ready To Work
Two of the world’s shortest congressional business meetings took place today between 11:37 and 11:41am. The Joint Committee on the... View Article
Continue readingCelebrating the Knight News Challenge Winners
The Sunlight Foundation would like to extend a hearty congratulations to the 2011 winners of the Knight News Challenge just... View Article
Continue reading2Day in #OpenGov 6/22/2011
Here is Wednesday’s look at transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency-related events. News... View Article
Continue readingO Conan! Where art thou? Legal treatise a no-show
Seven months ago, the order was given for the legal treatise, known as the Constitution Annotated (or CONAN), to be... View Article
Continue readingIt Sure is Hard to See in Without Technology
The allocation of funds to the Electronic Government Fund was not discussed at the House Appropriations Financial Services Subcommittee mark-up last... View Article
Continue readingAccess to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act to be Considered Thursday
As I mentioned yesterday, the House Oversight and Government Reform committee will be looking at two transparency bills at a business meeting... View Article
Continue readingTen Organizations Praise Federal Financial Transparency Efforts
Ten transparency organizations praised congressional and administration efforts to improve federal financial transparency in a letter sent earlier today. The... View Article
Continue readingInfluence Explored: Corporations lobby for tax breaks
An article on the front page of the New York Times yesterday reported on the pressure some major corporations—such as Microsoft—... View Article
Continue readingTransparency Provisions in the Shareholder Protection Act Important to Disclose Corporate Political Expenditures
Sunlight joined dozens of groups from across the political spectrum asking Members of Congress to support the Shareholder Protection Act,... View Article
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