Tag: Sunlight Foundation

Republicans lawmakers in DC are really mad that they lost the battle on health care. So for the last two days they have invoked...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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.

Today's look at what's happening in Congress courtesy of GovTrack.us. Click the image below for more information. According to the House roll call, Colorado's delegation voted:...

Today's look at what's happening in Congress courtesy of OpenCongress.org. Click the image for more information on Rep. Tancredo's voting record.