“One of the unsung heroes in the nation's capital is Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation”
-Mark Tapscott
The Washington Examiner
The Washington Examiner
“One of the unsung heroes in the nation's capital is Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation”
Recently, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee reported out a bill to address climate change by a 10-1 vote. The lone no vote came from Montana Senator Max Baucus, who as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee will have his opportunity to craft his own climate bill. Baucus will likely have a lot of input coming in from outside his office as twelve of his former staffers, including four former chiefs of staff, work as lobbyists for organizations with an explicit interest in climate legislation.
Continue reading The Max Baucus Energy & Climate Lobbyist Complex
In the half hour since we posted on Service Employee International Union’s 2008 political activity and lobbying expenditure numbers, the U.S. Postal Service delivered the copy of the U.S. ...
Every week I climb into the depths of the local political blogosphere to find the Sunlight. This week I have highlights from Illinois, Louisiana, and ...
In 2008, according to a federal disclosure form that’s available online from the Labor Department, the national headquarters of the Service Employees International Union spent $67 million on political activities ...
TPM is reporting that Majority Leader Harry Reid is going to exclude a provision that would remove the anti-trust exemption for health insurers from the Senate health care reform ...
The Senate’s version of the health care bill was published on Wednesday, along with its CBO score.
Since the first preliminary procedural vote isn’t expected until Saturday ...
