Yesterday, John and I met with the director of the fantastically-named Committee Management Secretariat, which oversees approximately 1,000 federal advisory... View Article
Continue readingWelcome Back, Congress
The House and Senate worked more days in 2009 than they have in any year since 1995, when the Republican... View Article
Continue readingRebooting the FCC – a major first step
Today the Federal Communications Commission released “reboot the FCC,” an ambitious attempt to “improv[e] citizen interactions with the Federal Communications... View Article
Continue readingNoon Links
1) Read this long piece by James Fallows. It’s not directly about transparency, but rather government dysfunction. Good thought piece... View Article
Continue readingShifting Legislative Dynamics & Transparency
A couple of days ago I wrote about some of the potential transparency issues related to the decision by House... View Article
Continue readingTip of the Hat to THOMAS
In May 2007, Sunlight called on the Library of Congress to “create stable links” to legislative documents published on THOMAS.... View Article
Continue readingConference Committees Not a Panacea
Over the last few days, there has been considerable discussion over transparency and the health care bills. It has been... View Article
Continue readingAfternoon Links
1) Earmarks are down by 1/3. 2) A firm linked to Rep. John Murtha not allowed to get contracts from... View Article
Continue readingTransparency Growing Pains In DeKalb, Illinois
I’m happy to have Lynn Fazekas from Illinois’ City Barbs guest blog today. City Barbs is a hyper local blog... View Article
Continue readingChart Wars: The Political Power of Data Visualization
TargetPoint’s VP and Director of Research, Alex Lundry recently gave this entertaining and enlightening talk at DC Ignite. It’s only... View Article
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