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<title>Sunlight&#039;s New &#039;Fortune 535&#039; Site Details the Growth of Lawmakers&#039; Net Worth</title>

<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC &#150; Just as members of Congress are filing their latest annual personal disclosure reports, the Sunlight Foundation today launched a new Web site&#150;<a href="http://fortune535.sunlightprojects.org/">Fortune 535</a>. This new Web site lets citizens see how much, or how little, lawmakers&#8217; wealth has grown in the past 11 years&#150;the period of time from which lawmakers&#8217; personal financial data is available.  ]]></description>

<link>http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/node/4753</link>

<pubDate>Tue May 13 10:28:04</pubDate>
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<title>Sunlight Invites Collaboration on New Transparency Bill</title>

<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC &#150;Today, the Sunlight Foundation launched a new Web site &#8211; <a href="http://PublicMarkup.org">PublicMarkup.org</a> &#8211; to invite the public to review and further shape an omnibus transparency bill the Foundation drafted.]]></description>

<link>http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/node/4595</link>

<pubDate>Mon Mar 31 11:00:03</pubDate>
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<title>Lessig to Launch beta of Change Congress Project in Sunshine Week Lecture</title>

<description><![CDATA[Professor Lawrence Lessig, renowned expert in intellectual property, has a new mission: to combat the influence of money in American democracy. Bolstered by the recent &#8220;Draft Lessig&#8221; movement that almost convinced him to run for Congress, Lessig will further his mission by launching a new &#8220;Change Congress&#8221; project in a Sunshine Week lecture sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation and Omidyar Network.   ]]></description>

<link>http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/node/4530</link>

<pubDate>Thu Mar 6 15:03:42</pubDate>
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<title>Citizen Journalists at the SuperDelegate Transparency Project Produce Only Fully Sourced, Detailed Reporting on SuperDelegates</title>

<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC &#150; The group of citizen journalists, bloggers and activists convened at the <a href="(http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=STP">SuperDelegate Transparency Project</a> have produced the only reporting on SuperDelegate commitments in the race for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination that is fully broken down by delegate, by state, congressional district and has full and transparent sourcing. No major news organization provides such detail or provides their sources.    ]]></description>

<link>http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/node/4522</link>

<pubDate>Wed Mar 5 15:56:01</pubDate>
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<title>Sunlight Empowers Internet Entrepreneurs with Mini&#150;grants</title>

<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC &#150;Today, the Sunlight Foundation is announcing new mini&#150;grants as part of its commitment to support original ideas, tools, Web sites, and bloggers that further the organization&#8217;s mission of using the Internet to foster a more open government.   ]]></description>

<link>http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/node/4440</link>

<pubDate>Thu Feb 14 9:57:09</pubDate>
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<title>Sunlight Awarded $2 Million Grant by Omidyar Network</title>

<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC &#150; The Sunlight Foundation today announced an investment of $2 million from Omidyar Network, a mission&#150;based organization established by Pam and Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay. This is the second such grant Sunlight received from Omidyar Network. Sunlight also announced that Lawrence Lessig, renowned expert in intellectual property and Stanford University Law Professor, has joined its Advisory Board.]]></description>

<link>http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/node/4375</link>

<pubDate>Tue Jan 22 11:05:34</pubDate>
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<title>Sunlight Mashup Puts Congressional Transparency On The Map</title>

<description><![CDATA[Today, the Sunlight Foundation released a Google map mashup and corresponding RSS feeds that lets citizens see the activities, on and off Capitol Hill, of the eight members of Congress who post their daily schedules online. The maps, which are updated weekly, include meetings beginning in January 2007.]]></description>

<link>http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/node/4300</link>

<pubDate>Tue Dec 11 9:15:51</pubDate>
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<title>Watchdog Groups Urge Senators to Oppose Budget Secrecy</title>

<description><![CDATA[Washington, DC &#150; Twelve non profit organizations concerned with oversight and transparency in government sent a letter to members of the United States Senate urging them to oppose an eleventh&#150;hour secrecy provision added to the Conference Report on the FY 2008 Transportation&#150;HUD Appropriations bill.]]></description>

<link>http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/node/4219</link>

<pubDate>Fri Nov 16 11:04:51</pubDate>
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<title>ProgrammableWeb Launches Insanely Useful Hub of Open Source Government Data and APIs</title>

<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC &#150; <a href="http://programmableweb.com">ProgrammableWeb</a> recently launched a <a href="http://programmableweb.com/government">new central resource of over a dozen government&#150;related mashups and Application Programming Interfaces</a> (APIs) to improve access to legislative, civic and political information.  ]]></description>

<link>http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/node/4200</link>

<pubDate>Wed Nov 14 10:03:39</pubDate>
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<title>Navigate House Defense Earmarks on Google Earth</title>

<description><![CDATA[Members of Congress know where the money is going: now citizens can, too. The Sunlight Foundation today released a Google Earth application that plots the locations for almost 1,500 earmarks in the House Defense Appropriations bill.]]></description>

<link>http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/node/4172</link>

<pubDate>Tue Nov 6 9:39:54</pubDate>
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