Tomorrow is the anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. I became particularly interested in the months after the disaster on... View Article
Continue readingFAPIIS May Be the Worst Government Website We’ve Ever Seen
Yesterday the government’s Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System (FAPIIS) came online. This is something we’ve been looking forward... View Article
Continue readingSenate Expenses to be PDF’d
We’ve just gotten the following document, which gives us the latest on the Senate’s plan to post official Senate expenses... View Article
Continue readingHouse Rules Committee Looks at Legislative Versioning
The House Rules Committee is looking into how to provide better context for legislation, by showing the difference between different... View Article
Continue readingMerchants, Retailers Employ Revolving Door Lobbyists In Regulatory Fight
Merchants, retailers, and their trade associations have arrayed a team of former government officials turned lobbyists in one of 2011’s... View Article
Continue readingThe Day in Transparency 4/19/2011
Here is Tuesday’s look at transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency-related events. News... View Article
Continue readingThe Other Side of Tax Expenditures: Tax Collection
On Monday I wrote about [tax expenditures and their lack of transparency](http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2011/04/18/your-tax-day-guide-to-government-spending-through-the-tax-code/) and we published a short [quiz](http://sunlightfoundation.com/projects/2011/taxday/) on tax... View Article
Continue readingSunrise (4/19/11)
FOREIGN MONEY FUELS ONLINE POKER LOBBYING BLITZ —NYT: “For the past four years, the foreign companies that control the global... View Article
Continue readingThe Way Forward To Save The Data
In the last few weeks there’s been a whirlwind of news and speculation about what will happen to the federal... View Article
Continue readingNew 72 Hour Rule Bill Introduced
On Friday, Rep. Peters introduced a new bill, (H. Res. 230), to carry the Read the Bill mantle. The bill... View Article
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