Sunlight has routinely focused on the glaring problem in lobbying disclosure that only those who spend 20 percent or more... View Article
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Today, our guest post is written by Mario Roset and Rosario Gonzalez Morón of Wingu, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.... View Article
Continue readingTom DeLay looks to Citizens United for a bailout
The Citizens United Supreme Court ruling may have not only opened a spigot of corporate money in our elections, it... View Article
Continue readingWikipedia Turns Ten: Lessons of Collaboration
Wikipedia is the world’s most successful model of citizen engagement and collaboration. It began ten years ago as an experiment... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Grantee Publishes Studies on Campaign Ads and Spending Trends
The Wesleyan Media Project, a grantee of the Sunlight Foundation, recently announced two academic studies based on the comprehensive political... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Weekly Round-Up: Gov 2.0 for better governing
The term Gov 2.0 may throw some technologically challenged people such as myself, off . But Gov 2.0 guru Tim... View Article
Continue readingImproving Federal Lobbying Laws topic of ABA Task Force Report
Improving federal lobbying laws is the focus of a new report released by a task force of the American Bar... View Article
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For-profit colleges “increased their donations to lawmakers … [hoping] that donations will get them audiences with lawmakers to convince them... View Article
Continue readingDeterring Corruption by Improving Disclosure
Late last week, PMA lobbyist Paul Magliocchetti was sentenced to 27 months in prison and a $75,000 fine after pleading... View Article
Continue readingA couple of notes
Just a couple of house-keeping notes: 1) I’ll be tracking the next moves of the 95 congressmen and 19 senators... View Article
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