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For the second time ever, the House of Representatives released an online update to its “House Expenditure Reports” — a... View Article
Continue readingA Brief History of Senate Reconciliation Votes
As Democrats move forward to pass health care reform attention has focused on a key piece of Senate rules known... View Article
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Seven key Democrats seen as potential vote-flippers on the health care reform bill are heavily reliant on campaign funds from... View Article
Continue readingRangel Out: The Particulars
Rep. Charlie Rangel temporarily resigned his chairmanship of the House Ways & Means Committee pending the completion of various ethics... View Article
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Continue readingWhite House-PhRMA Update
Last we left off in the story of the White House-PhRMA deal the White House had made new cost cutting... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Live vs. TV Media, Ctd: David Foster Wallace, Transparency, C-SPAN, Health Care Reform and Data Jamming
There’s a been a bunch of writing around the Internet about the success/failure of last week’s Blair House health care... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Live Recap: How We Did It
During the Health Care Summit on Thursday, Feb 25, Sunlight tried something new by connecting a live political event to the government data and information we work to make more accessible every day. Dubbed "Sunlight Live," our coverage of the joint Republican and Democratic heath care summit as a pilot was a smashing success, thanks to all of you.
Continue readingSunlight Live vs. TV Media
There are a lot of reasons that I never watch television news, particularly cable news. This “CNN analysis” of the... View Article
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