Incoming Speaker Boehner recently vowed to tighten the House of Representative’s collective belt through a 5 percent budget reduction. Congressional... View Article
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Inspired in part by a recent C-SPAN letter to incoming Speaker Boehner, Sunlight sent today the following letter to Leader... View Article
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It’s been widely reported that the House Republicans have recently posted their conference rules online for the first time. While... View Article
Continue readingEarmark transparency unwound the omnibus
Slate’s Dave Weigel has a really interesting take on why the omnibus spending bill just stalled in the Senate: The... View Article
Continue readingIndecent Disclosure: Success!
Last week, we challenged those of you who support open government and who live remotely in the DC area to... View Article
Continue readingToo Big To Fail: Is the financial sector too big in Washington?
Thomas Hoenig, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, recently penned an op-ed in the New York... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency…Are Delicious
This week’s guest blogger is Jed Sundwall. Jed is an Internet marketing consultant who specializes in the usage of social... View Article
Continue readingBank lobbyist to lead Senate banking panel
Last week Sen. Tim Johnson, the incoming chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, hired Dwight Fettig, a lobbyist with numerous... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Weekly Round-up: Arizona Transparency takes a Christmas break!
A recent report on how states are doing in their subsidy programs has been blog-fodder nationwide. But some of the... View Article
Continue readingVisitor Logs: Presidential CEO Meeting Not the First
The much-touted Presidential meeting with CEOs held earlier today was not the first time that President Obama has met with... View Article
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