Tag: Sunlight Foundation
Pouting GOP taking off at tea time in DC, furthering gridlock
Republicans lawmakers in DC are really mad that they lost the battle on health care. So for the last two days they have invoked...
Hugo Chavez’s state-owned Petroleos Corp set to spend on your U.S....
Blogging on the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling is more of what we love about the web. It's the kind of typical collective dissection...
Democratizing federal contract process with sunlight
This is kinda cool.
Über transparency advocates the Sunlight Foundation is crowdsourcing a federal contract bid to redesign the economic stimulus oversight Web site, Recovery.gov, through it's open source development lab.
Campaign contributions up, despite economic downturn
As the nation’s economy mires in recession, most Americans are anticipating lower earnings by making do with less — but not those who call Capitol Hill home.
Push for a tax break, get a 22,000% return on investment
The government transparency mavens at the Sunlight Foundation point to a new report documenting how multinational corporations got a staggering 22,000 percent return on the money spent to hire lobbyists to push for a one-time 85 percent IRS tax break on worldwide income.
The bill the corporate giants fought so hard for? The inaptly named American Jobs Creation Act of 2004.
Conventions highlight gaps in ethics laws
It was one of the chief vows of the Democratic Party as it took control of both congressional chambers in 2007: to sever the cozy relationships between lobbyists and lawmakers brought to light by the Jack Abramoff scandals.
No room for us at ‘widely attended’ Qwest party
A new dispatch from Political Party Time.org
We’re just back from a party thrown by Qwest CEO Ed Mueller at the Denver Art Museum’s Palletes restaurant. Designed to be a “widely attended event” under the new ethics law, according to the invitation, apparently it wasn’t so widely attended that they were prepared to allow me in. (To meet the “widely attended” loophole, the event must have at least 25 attendees who are not members of Congress, and there must be some official business for the lawmaker attending, among other conditions.)
Not so popular
We'll be posting periodic dispatches from Political Party Time.org on DNC parties.
Those of you who followed our exploits on twitter.com/SFPartytime will know that as I suspected, I'm not so popular when it comes to convention parties.
The Congressional Crib Sheet
Today's look at what's happening in Congress courtesy of GovTrack.us.
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According to the House roll call, Colorado's delegation voted:...
The Congressional Crib Sheet
Today's look at what's happening in Congress courtesy of OpenCongress.org.
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