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TechPresident: White House Rolls Out New Plan for Digital Government
John Wonderlich, the Sunlight Foundation's* policy director, was similarly skeptical.

"It's very hard to get excited about government-wide tech plans, when the people who write them leave, and then we get new plans," he wrote on Twitter. In another tweet, he continued:

"There's the OGD" — that's the Open Government Directive — "the OGP commitments" — that's the Open Government Partnership — "vivek's old 25 point plan" — released by former Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, who left federal government last year — "and now a new unified plan?"
whitehouse  johnwonderlich  techpresident  blog 
7 days ago by sunlightfoundation
The Monkey Cage: Me Talk Pretty One Day?
From new analysis by Lee Drutman at the Sunlight Foundation’s blog.  You’ll never guess whose speeches score higher than the Declaration of Independence.
capitolwords  gradelevel  leedrutman  monkeycage  blog 
8 days ago by sunlightfoundation
Reporters' Lab // Adding structure to unsearchable video
They also have an application programming interface for developers looking to play with the data itself. Sunlight Labs even put it to use during its 2011 Labs Olympics, which resulted in a Granicus-powered project called Talk of the Town.
granicus  reporterslab  blog 
17 days ago by sunlightfoundation
Data Publica: Interview of John Wonderlich, policy director at the Sunlight Foundation
blog  france  johnwonderlich 
17 days ago by sunlightfoundation
INFOdocket: Scout: A New Alerting Tool (Beta) for Fed/State Government Info From Sunlight Labs
By the time you read this we will probably already have a few Scout alerts up and running. More later. This resource sounds 100% promising and if Sunlight Labs other resources are any indication, it’s going to be awesome. Btw, Scout is free to access and use.
scout  infodocket  blog 
5 weeks ago by sunlightfoundation
The Verge: US House passes bill to make federal spending data available online
It's also worth noting that the act's passage comes just a few days after a survey from the Sunlight Foundation found that only 25 percent of all House Appropriations Committee hearings are archived online, despite the fact that current rules require all hearings to be streamed and made publicly available "to the maximum extent possible." If the DATA act makes it through the Senate, however, taxpayers may soon have greater access to federal spending records, and greater insight into where their tax dollars actually go.
dataact  house  theverge  blog 
5 weeks ago by sunlightfoundation
Mahsable: YouTube Reveals Its Pick of the Non-Profits for Next Cause Summit [VIDEOS]
youtube  mashable  blog 
5 weeks ago by sunlightfoundation
Programmable Web: Today in APIs: Siri, Yelp, Government and 15 New APIs
There are 6 Sunlight Labs API in our directory, so it was strange to see the company suggest that governments don’t need APIs. But that’s not really what they’re saying:

To sum up, Sunlight is pro-API – we make our own, and we welcome them from the government when they enhance access to information (the FederalRegister.gov API is a particularly good example). However, the first step government should take, in nearly all cases, is to offer the data directly and in bulk. They’ll save themselves mountains of hassle, will better and more quickly serve entrepreneurs and developers, and will encourage the broadest possible use of their data by the public.
api  programmableweb  blog 
5 weeks ago by sunlightfoundation
ZDNet: In DC, Google and Facebook Position Republican Insiders
Molinari is an experienced Washington lobbying veteran. She was a Republican member of Congress from 1990-97 and has been a registered lobbyist since 1999, when she established her own lobbying firm. (Between ‘97 and ‘99, Molinari attempted a career in TV journalism.)

Her clients have included Freddie Mac, Exelon, SBC Communications, and Verizon Communications - the Sunlight Foundation highlights her nuclear and defense clients here.
susanmolinari  google  lobbying  zdnet  blog 
5 weeks ago by sunlightfoundation
Technically Philly: Open San Diego: open data catalog for California city uses OpenDataPhilly source code from Azavea
Sundwall says he’s been working on Open San Diego for about two and a half years, ever since he went to a transparency camp in 2009. Code for America founder Jen Pahlka and others at the camp pushed him to use his experience developing social media strategies for USA.gov and GobiernoUSA.gov in San Diego.
transparencycamp  technicallyphilly  blog  pennslyvania 
5 weeks ago by sunlightfoundation
Florida Independent: Outside political spending four times greater than in 2008
Super PACs and other outside groups are already spending four times as much money on this upcoming presidential than in 2008, the Sunlight Foundation reports.
outsidespending  superpacs  floridaindependent  blog 
5 weeks ago by sunlightfoundation
The Root: Stand Your Ground Law: ALEC Behind the Push?
The law -- which allows people to use deadly force, without any obligation to retreat first, when they believe they are being threatened -- was originated by the NRA and first passed in Florida in 2005. According to the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit watchdog group, ALEC followed suit by adopting the law's language for its model legislation and proposing it to state lawmakers. Near-identical laws have since passed in 10 other states, including South Carolina, Tennessee, Michigan and Mississippi.
alec  standyourground  theroot  blog 
5 weeks ago by sunlightfoundation
Defense Industry Daily: Rapid Fire April 3, 2012: Cutting Order Size Is Self-Inflicted Wound
The Sunlight Foundation crunched some data about the House of Representatives and found that being part of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) is not nearly as strong a predictor of fundraising heft as belonging to Ways and Means, Financial Services or Energy and Commerce.
defesnseindustrydaily  house  blog 
5 weeks ago by sunlightfoundation
ShortFormBlog: nationaljournal: Reblogging because NJ is...
Twitter would’ve picked it up, it would’ve been rumored about on blogs for weeks (Think Progress might’ve grabbed it), then a couple of citizen journalists would crunch some numbers discovered by the Sunlight Foundation, Ed Schultz might’ve given it a passing mention on his show … then Woodward and Bernstein would’ve noticed.
watergate  shortformblog  blog 
5 weeks ago by sunlightfoundation
Care2 Causes: Champions Of Open Government: Homicide Watch DC [Video]
The non-profit, non-partisan Sunlight Foundation is showcasing efforts like Homicide Watch DC in short documentary series called OpenGov Champions. Here’s a clip of the important work Homicide Watch DC is doing and another good reminder of why transparency in government is an issue that everyone can get behind.
opengovchamps  care2  blog 
5 weeks ago by sunlightfoundation
Nonprofit Quarterly: Six Years of Sunlight: The Foundation That Illuminates Government
A recent story in Mashable compares the culture that dominates the nonprofit, nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation to the philosophy of the open-source software crowd. With a goal of opening up government, the foundation categorizes its current work into five separate and ambitiously broad areas: money business, the low-down on Congress, reporting, keeping tabs on government and a new mobile app division.
nonprofitquarterly  feature  blog 
5 weeks ago by sunlightfoundation
Sunshine State News: Congressional Democrats Are Maxing Out Their Office Budgets, Too
Though some lawmakers spent more in raw dollars last year, the survey by USA Today and the Sunlight Foundation ranked members strictly according to the spending against their budget.
sunlightstatenews  florida  blog  housedisbursements 
5 weeks ago by sunlightfoundation
BostInno: What City Should You Live In? Let the Data Decide
. Via The Atlantic Cities, The Sunlight Foundation has launched a site called Upwardly Mobile that lets you enter your profession, the variables you care about, and see what other cities offer a better deal.

For me, with writing and looking only at housing, food, and salary the site recommends the D.C. suburbs of Maryland, followed by LA and Santa Barbara.
upwardlymobile  bostinno  massachusetts  blog 
5 weeks ago by sunlightfoundation
FierceGovernmentIT: Transparency groups call for THOMAS bulk downloads
In a blog post highlighting the letter, Sunlight Foundation Policy Counsel Daniel Schuman says the organizations estimate that for person who goes directly to THOMAS, at least two go to a third-party congressional action tracker, such as opencongress.org or govtrack.us.

Such websites cobble together their information by stripping it from THOMAS, an “imperfect, expensive, and time consuming” process, the letters say.
thomas  danielschuman  fiercegovernmentit  blog 
5 weeks ago by sunlightfoundation
Broadcasting & Cable: Sunlight Foundation Disses Broadcaster Political File Compromise - 2012-04-23
The Sunlight Foundation has written the FCC to ask that it not accept broadcasters' compromise proposal for posting political files online, arguing that it creates a two-tiered regime that does not satisfy congressional intent for political file reporting and undercuts broadcaster arguments that online posting of all political file info would be unduly burdensome.
fcc  broadcastfile  broadcastingcable  blog 
5 weeks ago by sunlightfoundation
Town Hall: Cost to Discuss War on Women? $75,800 - Katie Pavlich
obama  fundraiser  townhall  blog 
5 weeks ago by sunlightfoundation
Breitbart.com: Vast Left Wing Conspiracy: DOJ Refers Reporter to Media Matters, Source Claims
She also worked for the Sunlight Foundation and tweeted enthusiastically about Obama's Bundler List on 7/15/11, saying "Now this is f**king awesome: http://bit.ly/n4dqQ4(@sunfoundation)." Ms. Dixon's tweets are protected but are viewable here. (h/t Twitter user @teezieldors) The record of this tweet has been deleted following the publication of this article.
breitbart  blog 
5 weeks ago by sunlightfoundation
Online Journalism Blog: When data goes bad
In the video below Ellen Miller of the Sunlight Foundation takes the US government to task over the inconsistencies in its transparency agenda, and the flawed data published on its USAspending.gov – so flawed that they launched the Clearspending website to automate and highlight the discrepancy between two sources of the same data:
ellenmiller  clearspending  onlinejournalismblog  blog 
5 weeks ago by sunlightfoundation
PressTV: Corporations spending more on lobbying pay less tax
A recent report has found that of the 200 wealthiest U.S. companies, those who spent the most on lobbying in Washington saw the greatest reduction in reported tax rates between 2007 and 2010.

[...]

"If you think you wound up paying too much in taxes this year, maybe you ought to hire a lobbyist. Or two. Or 20. After all, it’s a strategy that seems to be working well for some of the nation’s biggest corporations," according to report published by the Sunlight Foundation. sunlightfoundation.com
taxes  lobbying  leedrutman  presstv  iran  blog 
6 weeks ago by sunlightfoundation
Texas Watchdog: Companies spend big on federal lobbying, see tax bills shrink
Each of the eight companies that spent the most on Washington lobbyists lowered the amount they paid in federal taxes between 2007 and 2010, according to a new report by the nonprofit Sunlight Foundation.
taxes  lobbying  texaswatchdog  texas  blog 
6 weeks ago by sunlightfoundation
International Business Times: Corporate Tax Rates: Lobbying Helps Big Business Pay Less To Federal Government, Says Study
The Sunlight foundation released a report on Monday showing that big companies that spent more on lobbying saved more on federal taxes. Big corporations, in other words, have effectively bought themselves more favorable tax policies.
taxes  lobbying  internationalbusinesstimes  blog 
6 weeks ago by sunlightfoundation
HUFFPOST FUNDRACE -- Karl Rove's Secret $10 Million Donor
It reported that nearly 90 percent of its contributions through end of 2011 had come from as few as two dozen donors, each giving $1 million or more. Overall, the nonprofit raised more than $76 million since it was founded in May 2010 through the end of last year. 'That’s certainly not a grassroots movement, is it,' said Bill Allison, editorial director of the Sunlight Foundation, which advocates for transparency in government and politics. 'These donors can have a very disproportionate effect on politics, and the fact that we don’t know who they are and what kind of favors they will ask for is very troubling.'"
crossroads  billallison  huffingtonpost  fundrace  blog 
6 weeks ago by sunlightfoundation
E-Commerce News: Enterprise IT: US Agency Takes 'Private' Approach to Streamlining IT Procurement
The Sunlight Foundation, an open government advocacy group, has asked Congress to order the release the THOMAS information in a bulk database, in addition to the electronic format that is available on the Internet. About 30 other organizations joined the Sunlight Foundation in the April 10 request.

The current format is "brittle," Sunlight said, and frustrates access.

"Right now, the THOMAS format is flawed and has to be 'scraped' by providers from hundreds of thousands of Web pages in order to be captured and made useful in other formats. This is time-consuming and sometimes results in errors, and does not allow for the posting of updates," Daniel Schuman, the foundation's policy counsel, told CRM Buyer.
thomas  danielschuman  ecommercetimes  blog 
6 weeks ago by sunlightfoundation
Columbia Journalism Review: Where to Turn When Tackling Money-in-Politics Stories
In addition to Followthemoney.org, these sites include the Center for Responsive Politics’ Opensecrets.org, Maplight.org, and a range of projects sustained by the Sunlight Foundation (which has funded some of CJR’s reporting on transparency). Other valuable resources include Democracy 21, the Campaign Legal Center, and Votesmart.org, which posts lawmakers’ resumes, voting records, and issue positions.
cjr  blog 
7 weeks ago by sunlightfoundation
Florida Independent: Report: Romney Super PAC raised over $4.5 million from just 59 Floridians
Just last month, the Sunlight Foundation reported that Super PACs, and other outside groups, are already spending four times as much money on this upcoming presidential as they did during the 2008 presidential election.
superpacs  floridaindependent  florida  blog 
7 weeks ago by sunlightfoundation
Reporters' Lab: TechRaking unites reporters, technologists
Sunlight Labs Director Tom Lee also provided an overview of a tool called SuperFastMatch for text comparison.
superfastmatch  blog  reporterslab 
7 weeks ago by sunlightfoundation
Programmable Web: Government Data: Web APIs vs. Bulk Data Files
Sunlight Labs and Peter Krantz recently published articles on this subject. Both articles discuss the considerations that need to be made when choosing to provide data using web APIs or through bulk data dump files. In most cases, using bulk data dump files is the less costly, most effective solution.
api  programmableweb  blog 
9 weeks ago by sunlightfoundation
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Did lawsuit factor in Olympia Snowe's departure?
(Sunlight Foundation) It alleges fraud by an education company she's heavily invested in
olympiasnow  michaelsavage  blog 
march 2012 by sunlightfoundation
O'Reilly Radar: 2011 Gov 2.0 year in review
"It's tough to choose which issue dominated the year in transparency, but I'd say that the Open Government Partnership, the E-government funding fight, and the Super Committee all loomed large for Sunlight," said John Wonderlich, policy director for the Sunlight Foundation. "On the state level, I'd include Utah's fight over FOI laws, Tennessee's Governor exempting himself from financial disclosure requirements, and the Wisconsin fight as very notable issues.  And the rise of Super PACs and undisclosed money in politics is probably an issue we're only just starting to see."
johnwonderlich  ellenmiller  oreillyradar  blog 
february 2012 by sunlightfoundation
COLORLINES: The Dirtiest of Words on Capitol Hill: “Racism”
So, Colorlines.com figured it was a good time to take a look at what our existing elected officials are already saying about some crucial racial justice issues—or, more specifically, to look at how they’re saying it. To do so, I turned to the neat Capitol Words tool from the Sunlight Foundation.
capitolwords  colorlines  blog 
february 2012 by sunlightfoundation
AlterNet: 10 Ultra-Rich Congresspeople Who 'Represent' Some of the Most Financially Screwed Districts
Marchant was a close ally of then-Texas governor George W. Bush, and according to the Sunlight Foundation has the fifth-largest holdings in oil companies among members of Congress. The 17th richest Congressperson in 2010 is a member of the Tea Party Caucus and has an average net worth of $49,340,275. Marchant is a real estate developer who owns a home construction company.
congress  personalfinancialdisclosure  alternet  blog 
february 2012 by sunlightfoundation
Grist: Pepsi spends $3 million a year so laws don’t come between corn syrup and your kids
Ironically-named food hero Marion Nestle just calculated that PepsiCo, which pumps enough high fructose corn syrup into the American public to turn out one Ghostbusters-size Stay Puft marshmallow man every 18 hours (I made that up; you get the idea), spends $3 million a year lobbying Congress.

So what is Pepsi doing dumping all that loot on 1-percenters who supposedly represent the American public on Capital Hill?

One motivation, according to the Sunlight Foundation, is the company's effort to stop the government's Interagency Working Group from proposing guidelines on food marketing aimed at kids.
grist  food  lobbying  blog 
february 2012 by sunlightfoundation
Food Politics » Lobbying in action: PepsiCo vs. kids’ marketing guidelines
I’m especially interested in lobbying against the IWG guidelines.  Pepsi, of course, was not alone in opposing them.  As I noted in a previous post, the the Sunlight Foundation reported on food companies lobbying against them.
lobbying  food  foodpolitics  blog 
february 2012 by sunlightfoundation
Nobel-Prize winner Chu deserves a booby prize for his naïveté in running the Energy Depart
Kaiser was a key fundraiser for Obama’s presidential campaign, hosting a 2007 fundraiser at his home that raised over $250,000.  Kaiser’s foundation (which had nearly $4 billion in assets in 2009) was a key investor in Solyndra.

Don’t be fooled by the foundation’s role: America’s super rich often use family foundations to cut their tax bills. And as the nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation described it, Kaiser “built his fortune in part through shrewdly playing the Internal Revenue Code.”       
energy  solyndra  blog 
january 2012 by sunlightfoundation
Government In The Lab: Today In Open Government, 5/2/2011
govinthelab  blog 
january 2012 by sunlightfoundation
The Pajamahadin: When You Fail In The Marketplace, Turn To Government For Help
GE has been looking for a way to turn GE Capital around for years. Dodd-Frank offered them the perfect opportunity to enlist the federal government in their reorganization effort. MetLife is no mom-and-pop operation, but a deal like this only solidifies GE Capital as an institution that is too big to fail.
link  dodd-frank  lobbying  blog 
january 2012 by sunlightfoundation
Triple Pundit: Congress Derails Proposed Guidelines To Restrict Marketing Junk Food To Children
A group of 19 Republican senators sent a letter last summer to federal agencies concerned about the proposed guidelines. The senators, according to Sunlight Foundation, received a combined total of $262,896 from the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), $403,700 from the National Restaurant Association and $242,864 from the National Association of Broadcasters. The senators received over $3 million during their careers from interests that have lobbied against the guidelines.
food  lobbying  blog 
january 2012 by sunlightfoundation
Disruptive Telephony: Looking for last-minute tax donations? Why not support the open Internet?
P.P.S. There are, of course, many others working in complementary ways... the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is doing great work on critical privacy issues. I love all that the Sunlight Foundation is doing for open government and there are so many more. All of them could use donations!
blog 
january 2012 by sunlightfoundation
Irregular Times: Minnesota Geese Aren’t Good Enough For Collin Peterson
This goose hunt Peterson will be going on is actually just a fundraising event. Peterson will have special private conversations with lobbyists and the leaders of political action committees – in exchange for money. Congressman Peterson has sent out an invitation to this event that explicitly asks political action committees to give him $5,000 in exchange for their presence at the event.
link  partytime  blog 
january 2012 by sunlightfoundation
Left In Alabama:: What Congress Is Talking About
This could be fun.  Capitol Words, from the Sunlight Foundation, shows what words the people on Capitol Hill are using, and how often. 

Take Mo Brooks (R, AL-05) for instance.  His most often used words are binge, whereas, unsustainable, fy and bore. ... I dare you to make a sentence out of that.
capitolwords  blog  alabama 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
Saint Petersblog: 0.1% of America accounts for 25% of the political contributions
According to a recent report by the Sunlight Foundation, 0.1% of the country — that’s one percent of one percent – made almost a quarter of the campaign donations last year
onepercent  florida  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
The Right Side of Austin: Forget the 1%, How about the 0.01%?
The Sunlight Foundation provided the facts above and put together this great graphic that breaks down the empowered 0.01%.
onepercent  texas  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
Northeast Linux Fest: James Turk - Confirmed Speaker at the Northeast GNU/Linuxfest!
James Turk from Sunlight labs is our latest confirmed speaker at the Northeast GNU/Linuxfest!
jamesturk  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
Newser: Facebook, Google Throw Big Bucks at Congress
Ellen Miller, executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, a non-partisan educational organization that tracks lobbying activity, says that the new kids on the block are playing politics in old school fashion. "You hire lobbyists. You make contributions. You do your best to influence all aspects of Washington to support your industry," she said.
lobbying  facebook  google  newser  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
Redmond Developer News: Microsoft's Windows Azure Leads the Data Revolution
"When the current budget cuts were revealed to include cuts to the e-government fund that supports Data.gov, everyone starting questioning Data.gov's value," reads a blog posting from the Sunlight Foundation last April when budget cuts were announced. "The cuts could spell the end of Data.gov," warned a Washington Post blog at the time. And this is with a Democrat in the White House!
data.gov  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
Food Navigator USA: Congress requests cost-benefit analysis for voluntary marketing guidelines
According to a recent report from the Sunlight Foundation, major food and beverage companies spent about $37m lobbying government during 2011, including over the proposed guidelines on marketing to children.
food  lobbying  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
Sardonicky: Congressional Buzzwords
A revamped version of CapitolWords, a truly ingenious program for finding out what congressperson said what, and how often, has been rolled out by the Sunlight Foundation, a government transparency advocacy group.
capitolwords  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
PressTV: SOPA vote delayed for more corporate fundraising?
"Congress benefits from keeping us all in suspense," noted Gabriela Schneider, spokesperson for the Sunlight Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to government transparency. "Those special interests who have a stake in it are ... contributing directly to campaigns, and this gives them more time to do it." Huffington Post
sopa  gabrielaschneider  presstv  iran  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
Information Diet: Dear Internet: It's No Longer OK to Not Know How Congress Works
What you have to understand is that Congress is saying that they don't understand the Internet isn't a failure of Congress. You may think these guys in Washington are foolish -- even too stupid to really understand the "mysteries of the Internet." but look at how our members of Congress talk about the biopharmaceutical industry: I haven't used the word "biosimilar" once in my life, but Congress used it 70+ times in a single month.
capitolwords  link  informationdiet  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
Free Government Information (FGI): House To Be More Open
House To Be More Open: OKs Online Publication Standard, by Daniel Schuman, Sunlight Foundation, (Dec. 16, 2011).
Taking effect on January 1, 2012, the resolution instructs the Clerk of the House to maintain a single website where the public can access all House bills, amendments, and resolutions for floor consideration in XML.
house  xml  freegovinfo  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
Havard Law School: Lessig on ‘The Daily Show’
Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Prior to rejoining the Harvard faculty, Lessig was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school's Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He serves on the Board of Creative Commons, MAPLight, Brave New Film Foundation, The American Academy, Berlin, AXA Research Fund and iCommons.org, and is on the advisory board of the Sunlight Foundation.
lessig  harvard  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
TRUTH4USA: The Political One Percent of the One Percent – Sunlight Foundation
Unlike the other 99.99% of Americans who do not make these contributions, these elite donors have unique access. In a world of increasingly expensive campaigns, The One Percent of the One Percent effectively play the role of political gatekeepers. Prospective candidates need to be able to tap into these networks if they want to be taken seriously. And party leaders on both sides are keenly aware that more than 80% of party committee money now comes from these elite donors.

via The Political One Percent of the One Percent – Sunlight Foundation.
onepercent  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
Dangerous Intersection: The one percent of the one percent
Sunlight Foundation reports on the one percent of the one percent:

In the 2010 election cycle, 26,783 individuals (or slightly less than one in ten thousand Americans) each contributed more than $10,000 to federal political campaigns. Combined, these donors spent $774 million. That’s 24.3% of the total from individuals to politicians, parties, PACs, and independent expenditure groups.

...

This article names names and presents the numbers to back up the claims.
onepercent  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
Society of Enviromental Journalists: Sunlight Foundation FOIA Seeks To Learn Who Visited Abramoff in Prison
Sunlight Foundation gumshoes have filed a federal Freedom of Information Act request to find out who visited lobbyist Jack Abramoff in prison.

Abramoff, a former lobbyist who was convicted of mail fraud, spent 3-1/2 years in prison. He was the center of a corruption scandal that involved figures at the highest levels of the Interior and Justice Departments under the George W. Bush administration.
jackabramoff  sej  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
INFOdocket: What are They Saying in Congress? “Announcing the Return of ‘Capitol Words’” (Data Analysis Tool)
From the Sunlight Foundation:
More than three years ago, we launched a website called Capitol Words that gave an at-a-glance view of what word was most popular in Congress. Today, the Sunlight Foundation is unveiling the completely revamped and rewritten Capitol Words.
capitolwords  infodocket  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
United Republic: Deck the Halls with Boughs of Money
Holiday cheer is nice, but access to government officials is the real goal:

“The present that everyone is looking for under their tree is access to Members of Congress,” the Sunlight Foundation’s Bill Allison said. “If you have a nice conversation with someone at a holiday party and you call them in January, they’re much more likely to take your call than somebody they don’t know.”
lobbying  billallison  unitedrepublic  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
Feber.se: What are talking U.S. Congress about?
One of the funniest sites I've seen in a long time must be this, Capitol Words. The site has collected all minutes of all meetings of the American Congress had since 1996 and now allows anyone to search for different words to see how often they used when they were used and by which parties or individuals. I can not help but to love this creation, and now the big question is, who does the same in Sweden?
capitolwords  sweden  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
Lez Get Real: STOCK Act Passes First Committee
The STOCK Act is supported by at least seven government reform groups including: Campaign Legal Center, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Common Cause, Democracy 21, Public Citizen, Sunlight Foundation and U.S. PIRG. The legislation has also garnered the support of legal experts like UCLA Professor Stephen Bainbridge.
stockact  lesbians?  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
K Street Cafe: Daily Specials
In #HackWeTrust – The House of Representatives Opens Its Doors to Transparency Through Technology (Sunlight Foundation)
Last week, the House of Representatives hosted a public discussion on ‘how to give the public better access to congressional information.’ Check out this post to learn all the ways that the House is working to ‘open itself up’ to the average citizen.
house  congress  hackwetrust  kstreetcafe  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
Techworld: Former congressional staffers lobby for copyright bills
Eight former staff members of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee are now lobbying on behalf of companies or groups supporting controversial copyright enforcement legislation in Congress, an example of the close ties often found between the political establishment and business interests.

The eight former staff members represent organizations that lobbied in support of the Protect IP Act (PIPA), a bill awaiting action in the U.S. Senate, according to the Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group, a government watchdog group. The House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to debate amendments to a similar bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), in a markup session beginning Thursday.
sopa  revolvingdoor  lobbying  techworld  australia  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
ARN: Former congressional staffers lobby for copyright bills
Eight former staff members of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee are now lobbying on behalf of companies or groups supporting controversial copyright enforcement legislation in Congress, an example of the close ties often found between the political establishment and business interests.

The eight former staff members represent organizations that lobbied in support of the Protect IP Act (PIPA), a bill awaiting action in the U.S. Senate, according to the Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group, a government watchdog group. The House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to debate amendments to a similar bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), in a markup session beginning Thursday.
sopa  revolvingdoor  lobbying  australia  arn  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
Combining Technology and Journalism Students : Northwestern University Newscenter
HamTracker, an extraction engine and search interface, uses the Library of Congress’ THOMAS database and metadata from the Sunlight Foundation for validating and fact-checking earmark spending information. Medill senior Katie Park, one of HamTracker’s creators, said while the government has made efforts to make earmark spending more transparent, it remains difficult to access. “HamTracker is a tool that both journalists and the public potentially can use to their benefit,” she said.
congress  earmarks  medill  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
iCommons: Sunlight Foundation Campaign to set standard for open data
From Laurenellen McCann at the Sunlight Foundation:

San Francisco is often thought of as the utopian edge of open government development: The city boasts the first city-level open data law in the United States, has its own app store, and even had 8 out of 9 mayoral candidates sign onto an Open Government Pledge (drafted by CityCamp alum) during this year’s race. But Adriel Hampton, a long time opengov advocate, connector, and CityCamp San Francisco lead, thinks his city — and state — can do one better.
icommons  california  opendata  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
DESMOG Blog: Steve Horn | Congressmembers Implicated in Insider Stock Trading on TransCanada, Keystone XL Pipeline
This week, a new layer of corruption was revealed by Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group, this one involving insider trading of TransCanada's stocks by four members of Congress, as well as by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice.

The politicians implicated and amount of money they invested in stock are as follows, according to Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group:
keystonexl  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
Pen-Elayne on the Web: Silly Site o' the Day
Sadly, this has been used to create actual PAC names (also via BoingBoing), proving once again that truth is stranger than fiction.
pacnamegenerator  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
Commodity Trading & Trend Following: Sunlight Reporting Group- MF Global pushed regulators to use client funds
I found this post. As of last year MF Global Dec 2010 pushed along with Newedge to allow regulators…yes regulators..the ones who should have protecting the integrity of the markets and client segregated accounts to co mingle accounts. This is from a Govt transparency group called Sunlight Reporting Group.
mfglobal  nancywatzman  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
Newsblaze: SXSW Accelerator Announces Selection of the 2012 Judges Lineup and Event Emcees
Judges for the 2012 SXSW Accelerator include industry luminaries such as:
-- Ellen Miller, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Sunlight Foundation
sxsw  ellenmiller  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
NEWS.GNOM.ES: Obama open government project critiqued by transparency groups
But the results are mixed, according to outside critics. “Announcements about new transparency policies imagine the best possible impact, while implementation often looks to the minimum requirements,” Sunlight Foundation Policy Director John Wonderlich wrote in a blog.
opengovdirective  johnwonderlich  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
Online Journalism Blog: Tools or Tales?
Add contextual information on any individual mentioned in a story, for example a politician who receives payment from a particular industry
poligraft  link  onlinejournalismblog  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
OurFuture.org: Senate Republicans Stand With Wall Street
Sens. Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) and John Thune (R-S.D.) both have fundraisers in New York City this weekend, according to invitations obtained by the Sunlight Foundation’s PoliticalPartyTime website. Will Wall Street donors be in attendance?
fundraisers  partytime  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
Public Campaign Action Fund: BACKGROUND MEMO: Will Wall Street Money Sway CFPB Nomination Votes?
Sens. Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) and John Thune (R-S.D.) both have fundraisers in New York City this weekend, according to invitations obtained by the Sunlight Foundation’s PoliticalPartyTime website. Will Wall Street donors be in attendance?
fundraisers  partytime  publiccampaign  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
Occupy DC: [Video] The Occupation of K Street
The Sunlight Foundation has quickly put a video together reflecting on the occupation of K Street today with a strong message. Occupiers and allies from across the country converged on Washington, DC to take over the seat of power: K Street. The K St area is home to America’s most powerful lobbying firms (http://snlg.ht/dcinfluencemap), whose power is measured by cash and access. In the wake of Citizens United v. the FEC that power, access, and, in fact, cash has grown exponentially.
ows  lobbying  citizensunited  occupydc  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
GovTwit: The gov 2.0 time machine: back to the big bang
In doing an unrelated Internet search today, I stumbled across an archive of 5,533 tweets that were sent immediately before, during and after Gov 2.0 Camp. Compiled by Dave Witzel (a founder of Forum One Communications now with the Environmental Defense Fund) with help from Sunlight Foundation programmer David James.
gov20camp  govtwit  davidjames  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
The Soros Files: Soros-funded “Journalism”
Complete List of ProPublica’s “Partners”

- Sunlight Foundation
soros  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
Digital Journal: Granicus Hosts CityCampSF Hackathon to Promote Civic Innovation & Open Government - Press Release
However, the ultimate goal of this event is to spur innovation and to support a broader campaign to drive open data legislation in San Francisco, throughout CA, and across the U.S. This movement has already gained the support of the Sunlight Foundation and 100 additional individual and organizational sponsors.
citycampsf  california  blog 
december 2011 by sunlightfoundation
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