A while back, I wrote about the House and Senate plan to make members release earmark requests on their sites... View Article
Continue readingA Senate Read the Bill Amendment Falls Five Votes Short
Yesterday, Sen. John Cornyn introduced an amendment to the budget that would require “five days of public review of legislation... View Article
Continue readingEthics Committee Pile On
There’s been a decent amount of criticism of the House Ethics Committee lately–and with just cause. Apparently they don’t have... View Article
Continue readingSenators Grill Stimulus Watchdog on Recovery.gov
Yesterday, Earl Devany, Inspector General for the stimulus, and Rob Nabors, deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget... View Article
Continue readingSenate Votes in Support of Future Federal Reserve Lending Transparency
That title sounds weird, but the whole process going on on the Senate floor right now is weird. In the... View Article
Continue readingGAO: Small Number of Lobbying Disclosures Are Wrong
The GAO is bound by law under the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 to file an annual... View Article
Continue readingDrug trial data at your fingertips
Unless you or a family member has suffered a serious illness, it’s unlikely that you’ve run across the site ClinicalTrials.gov,... View Article
Continue readingLocal Sunlight
Every week I climb into the depths of the local political blogosphere to find the Sunlight. I use this series... View Article
Continue readingGillibrand’s Sunlight Report Pulls Back the Curtain
Back when Kirsten Gillibrand was elected to the House of Representatives in 2006, she promised to post her daily schedule... View Article
Continue readingRead the Bill: The Commodity Futures Modernization Act
As part of the Read the Bill campaign, we’ve been writing a series of case studies highlighting bills that slipped... View Article
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