Mike Smith
Mike Smith is the Staff Writer at the Sunlight Foundation. Before joining the Sunlight Foundation, he worked for the Proteus Fund, the Florence Fund and the Schumann Foundation, philanthropies that fund in the areas of money and politics, media, environment and civil rights. He also worked in the Capitol Hill office of U.S. Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV as a speechwriter, and Public Affairs Television in New York as a research associate. He attended William Jewell College and the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
Mike has been writing up a storm...
- Curious Career of McCain Fundraiser July 25, 2008
Recent Sunlight Foundation Projects
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Transparency Jobs
Bringing Transparency to Government, One Job at a Time -
The Open Senate Project
A bipartisan, collaborative initiative to study the Senate's current information-sharing practices -
FARAdb
A proof of concept site based on Foreign Agent Registration Act data -
Read The Bill First
Sign the petition! Demand they take at least 72 hours to read the bailout bill! -
Pass S.223
We need your help to pass S.223. -
Party Time!
Documenting the Political Partying Circuit. -
Capitol Words
Fresh from the US Congressional Record to Your Screen. -
Public Markup
An experiment to open bills to online, public review. -
EarmarkWatch
Bringing Citizen Oversight to Congressional Spending. -
Visualizing Earmarks
Select Visualizations of 2005 OMB Earmark Data. -
Where Are They Now?
Former Congressional Staffers head through the Revolving Door
Simple Ways You Can Help
