Welcome to another brief roundup of notable deleted tweets from U.S. politicians caught by the Sunlight Foundation's Politwoops project this week.
Continue readingU.S. image abroad harmed by McCutcheon decision
The McCutcheon decision should be an “occasion for outrage.” Unfortunately in the U.S., voters seem to have become accustomed to the very things that disgust them.
Continue readingDATA Act passes Senate, President’s desk on the horizon.
The DATA Act passed the Senate by unanimous consent this afternoon, moving it one step closer to the President's desk.
Continue readingComcast and Time Warner Cable give big to some senators reviewing merger
As the Comcast-Time Warner cable merger is scrutinized on the Hill, will their combined $42.4 million in political contributions and $143.5 million in lobbying sway lawmakers' opinions?
Continue readingThe Week on Politwoops: the Staten Island Clown, #CookieSelfieforAutism, Detroit doesn’t suck and more
Welcome to another roundup of some notable deletions from U.S. politicians archived by our Politwoops project.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: The role of transparency in the creation of new places
Neighbor.ly is bringing transparency and democracy in the way community projects are funded by being the first online transparent and democratic civic funding platform with an open source repository.
Continue readingI learned basic JSON in the morning and made a silly Twitter bot with Sunlight’s API in the afternoon
It doesn't take a full-time software developer to build tools on Sunlight's data.
Continue readingLack of transparency likely to tarnish Hungarian election
A lack of transparency in Hungary could tarnish the April 6 parliamentary elections — but a new website tracking shady campaign spending aims to change that.
Continue readingHow bad is disclosure at the FEC? Worse than Justice Roberts thinks
Justifying the McCutcheon decision on the basis of healthy disclosure is reckless when it is well known that the government isn't demanding it or providing it in a useful way.
Continue readingWhy Congress might be more productive and less partisan than you think (Part II)
Using bulk data, we isolated the birthdays of members of Congress and determined their zodiac signs to assess productivity in this never before conducted analysis. The results are astronomically significant.
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