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Michael Bennet, Jane Norton To Attend Lobbyist Fundraiser At Same DC Townhouse

The Denver Post | Michael Riley | Posted 11.17.2009 | Denver

Read More: Jane Norton Fundraising, 2010, Sunlight Foundation, Lobbyists, Michael Bennet Fundraising, Colorado Senate Fundraising, Jane Norton, Michael Bennet, Fundraising, Denver News

Republican candidate Jane Norton was in town Monday for a big-money fundraiser at a Capitol Hill townhouse owned by partners of Williams & Jensen, a p...

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Cowboys And Redskins: This Week In Political Fundraisers

The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Transparency, Sunlight Foundation, Lobbyblog, Fundraisers, Politics News

Tickets to this Sunday's grudge match between the NFL's Washington Redskins and Dallas Cowboys can be had on Craigslist for less than $200. But for $2...

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Paranormal Legislative Activity

Jake Brewer | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Read the Bill, Mary Katharine Ham, H.Res 554, Sunlight Foundation, Comedy, Movies, Jake Brewer, Parody, Paranormal Activity, Politics News
Jake Brewer

Some really strange stuff went down when the Sunlight Foundation gave a Congressional bill and a camera to a couple. Totally unexplainable.

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HuffPost Game Changers: Who Is The Ultimate Game Changer In Politics?

Huffington Post | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Andrew Breitbart, Ellen Miller, Sunlight Foundation, Slidepoll, Act Blue, Joe Rospars, Alan Grayson, Game Changer Andrew Breitbart, Pam Spaulding, Politics Game Changers, Vivek Kundra, Avaaz, Ricken Patel, HuffPost Game Changers, Austin Heap, Huffington Post Politics Game Changers, Ricken Game Changer, Actblue, Game Changers, Jane Hamsher, Politics News

(VOTING IS NOW CLOSED) HuffPost's Game Changers celebrates 100 innovators, visionaries, and leaders in 10 categories who are harnessing the power o...

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Sunlight Foundation Takes Another Look At Lobbyist Bundlers

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 12.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Lobbyblog, Lobbying, Ethics, Sunlight Foundation, Open Secrets, Transparency, Business News

The Sunlight Foundation released a video on Thursday highlighting its investigation of lobbyist bundlers with OpenSecrets.org. The investigation, whi...

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Nerds, News and Neat Stuff

Jan Schaffer | Posted 12.01.2009 | Technology

Read More: New York Times, Sunlight Foundation, Propublica, Online Media, Knight-Batten-Awards-for-Innovations-in-Journalism, Technology News
Jan Schaffer

Documents and data are becoming key ingredients for creating entry points into the news.

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Congress' Tech-Oriented Growth Spurt

Ellen Miller | Posted 11.23.2009 | Technology

Read More: Transparency, John Culberson Twitter, Sunlight Foundation, Jon-Tester, Congress Twitter, Claire McCaskill, Max Baucus Health Care, Kirsten Gillibrand, Technology News
Ellen Miller

Three years ago, those using the Web for transparency likely registered around zero. But in the intervening years, Congress has adapted to the Internet at incredible speed.

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Arthur Delaney

Bailed-Out Financial Firms Forked Over $6 Million To Members Of Congress Since November

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Transparency, Wall Street Bailout, Bailout, Sunlight Foundation, Lobbying, Wall Street, Business News

Lobbyists representing seven of Wall Street's top ten bailout beneficiaries and their trade associations made more than $6 million in campaign contrib...

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More progress in Washington towards accountability, two major exceptions

Craig Newmark | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Transparency, Sunlight Foundation, Accountability, Politics News
Craig Newmark

Government accountability requires campaign finance data disclosure in electronic, searchable, online form, easily accessed as a database. This is easily done using current Web tech.

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BlogHer and Sunlight Foundation Get Facts on Health Care Reform

Craig Newmark | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Sunlight Foundation, Blogher, Politics News
Craig Newmark

The Sunlight Foundation and Blogher are teaming up to move our national health care conversation beyond partisan mud-slinging by going back to the facts.

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The Senate Hates Young People and Trees...

Jake Brewer | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: S.482, Harry Reid, Senate, Mitch McConnell, Psa, Pat Roberts, Transparency, Intern, U.S. Senate, Sunlight Foundation, Politics News
Jake Brewer

S.482 is the lowest of low-hanging fruit, and it's time the Senate picked this one off and let us move on to even more pressing transparency issues.

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Top Finance Committee Members Rake In Health Care PAC Money

Paul Blumenthal | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sunlight Foundation, Senate Finance Committee, Chuck Grassley, Campaign Contributions, Health, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Health Care, Healthcare, Campaign Finance, Transparency, Politics News
Paul Blumenthal

The duo of Max Baucus and Chuck Grassley, raised $219,000 from health and insurance political action committees (PACs) from April to June of this year.

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Recovery.gov Description FAIL

Jake Brewer | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Agriculture, White House, USAspending.Gov, Sunlight Foundation, Old Media vs. New Media, Department of Interior, New Media, recovery.gov, Politics News
Jake Brewer

Read as stated, this description leads one to believe that the U.S. government spent nearly $1.2M for 2 pounds of ham ...sliced.

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Recovery.gov Still Lacking Complete Transparency

Sunlight Foundation. | Sunlight Foundation | Posted 08.20.2009 | Home

Read More: Transparency, Sunlight Foundation, Obama Economic Recovery Plan, Stimulus Transparency, recovery.gov, Home News

As is now showing up all over the social web and news reports, the site Recovery.gov - which was set up to help the public hold government accountable...

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Earmarks Should Require an Itemized Receipt

Rep. Bill Cassidy | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rep. Jackie Speier, Anti-Earmarkers, Sunlight Foundation, Earmarks, Nancy Pelosi Earmarks, Taxpayers for Common Sense, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, The Hill, Rep. Bill Cassidy, Taxpayers, Politics News
Rep. Bill Cassidy

Transparency, accountability, and rigorous oversight are the keys to cutting waste, fraud, and abuse in government. They are also the keys to regaining taxpayers' trust.

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Arthur Delaney

Sen. Johnny Isakson's Shady Dinner With Lobbyists: Crashing The Party

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Transparency, Sunlight Foundation, Lobbying, Johnny Isakson, Center for Responsive Politics, Sen. Johnny Isakson, Party Crasher, Politics News

Just for fun, the Huffington Post decided Tuesday night to crash a dinner party for Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.). It was one of many fundraisers happen...

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New York City Proposes Accountability and Transparency Website

Craig Newmark | Posted 08.01.2009 | New York

Read More: nyc.gov, data.gov, Sunlight Foundation, Accountability, New York News
Craig Newmark

What that means is that people can write applications which show what's going on in NYC government.

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New "RaceTracker" Wiki to Keep Tabs on Every Congressional Race Nationwide

Jake Brewer | Posted 07.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Terry McAuliffe, Virginia Governor, Sunlight Foundation, OpenCongress.Org, Creigh Deeds, New Jersey Governor, Racetracker, Media News
Jake Brewer

This is awesome: "a non-partisan, fully-referenced, open-source and crowd-sourced wiki project that lists every candidate running in every U.S. Senate, House and governor's race."

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Asking Senators to Tell Us Where They Get Campaign Money

Craig Newmark | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senator Roberts, Transparency, Sunlight Foundation, Politics News
Craig Newmark

Well, there's this Senate bill, the The Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act, which pretty much means that Senators need to tell us where their campa...

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Data.Gov Launches: Why You Should Care and What You Should Do

Jake Brewer | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Transparency, Ellen Miller, Sunlight Labs, Government Accountability, Craig Newmark, Sunlight Foundation, Open Government, Clay Johnson, Politics News
Jake Brewer

Sometimes the geekiest stuff is the most important. When it comes to creating a more transparent and accountable government, Thursday, May 21, is one...

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The Lobbying Power of the Groups at the Presidential Health Care Pow-Wow

Paul Blumenthal | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Transparency, Sunlight Foundation, Health Care, Lobbying, Health, Barack Obama, Lobbyists, Politics News
Paul Blumenthal

Without disclosure of contacts, it may take some time to see whether today's event was just a high-level photo-op, or if it actually paid off in one-way or the other.

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Should Lobbyists Be Required to Disclose Anything?

Paul Blumenthal | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Transparency, Sunlight Foundation, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Barack Obama, Disclosure, Politics News
Paul Blumenthal

The need for a better system of lobbying disclosure, that increases registration and disclosure, is necessary to provide the public with the information that actually matters.

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Bob Bauer on Professionalism and Ethics for Lobbyists

Craig Newmark | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sunlight Foundation, Lobbyists, Bob Bauer, Ethics, Politics News
Craig Newmark

Bob Bauer's work is of major importance, reminding us that lobbying often is in the public interest or is just about someone getting a fair shake for their clients.

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Mining Geithner's Daybook

Bradley W. Bloch | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, Treasury Department, Timothy Geithner, Sunlight Foundation, Semantic Web, Kirsten Gillibrand, Social Networking, Tim Berners-Lee, Politics News
Bradley W. Bloch

While the prospect of having the public leaf through one's daybook may send chills down the spines of public officials, this level of public exposure is the wave of the future.

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"Realizing Transparency 2.0 Through Social Media"

Craig Newmark | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Transparency, Sunlight Foundation, Obama Transparency, Politics News
Craig Newmark

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