Paul Blumenthal
Paul Blumenthal is the Senior Writer at the Sunlight Foundation. A regular blogger for the site, Paul touches on a wide variety of transparency-related subjects including congressional corruption, the bank bailout, lobbying disclosures and the news of the day. Paul also runs the @SunFoundation twitter feed. Previously, Paul worked for Rock the Vote as a researcher and blogger and interned with the Campaign for America's Future, the Drug Policy Alliance and Shrum Devine & Donilon. Paul is a graduate of the NYU Gallatin School for Individualized Study, but maintains that he learned everything he ever needed to know from growing up in Washington, D.C.
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Recent blog contributions from Paul Blumenthal
- Not my bank, not my problem July 1, 2009
- ScandaLand: Who Is Currently Involved In A Congressional Scandal July 1, 2009
- Discussion Draft Follow-up June 30, 2009
- Senate Finance Committee Health Care Influence Cluster: The Democrats June 29, 2009
- Increasing Legislative Transparency: Read the Bill and Beyond June 29, 2009
- 300 Pages Out of Thin Air June 26, 2009
- Cap and Trade Underpants Gnomes June 25, 2009
- NPR Launches Dollar Politics June 25, 2009
- What the cap and trade rush does to advocacy June 24, 2009
- Cry Me A River June 24, 2009
- What the frak is going on with the Cap and Trade bill? June 23, 2009
- The Max Baucus Health Care Lobbyist Complex June 22, 2009
- Ignore the 5-Day Pledge, Organize Around 72-Hour Rule June 22, 2009
- Ensign Tried to Stymie Ethics Committee, Calls Come for Committee to Investigate June 19, 2009
- Lobbyists Daschle, Dole Release Health Care Plan; Do Not Note Health Care Clients of Their Law Firm June 18, 2009
- Cutting in Line June 18, 2009
- New Financial Regulations and Read the Bill June 18, 2009
- Is Ensign’s Sex Scandal More Than a Sex Scandal? June 17, 2009
- Read the Bill: What’s Been Rushed So Far in 2009? June 17, 2009
- Help Sunlight Bid on Recovery.gov June 17, 2009
- Lunch Time Link Round-Up June 16, 2009
- Obama Blocks Visitor Log Disclosure June 16, 2009
- Wanted: New Recovery.gov June 12, 2009
- Capitol Words: Pelosi v. Boehner June 12, 2009
- Ethics Link Line-Up June 12, 2009
Recent Sunlight Foundation Projects
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Apps for America 2
The Data.gov Challenge -
Pass S.482
We Need Your Help! -
ReadTheBill.org
Demand they Read the Bill -
Real Time Investigations
Tracking Private Influences on Public Policy -
OOGL
Our Open Government List -
Apps for America
Sunlight's annual development contest! -
Sunlight Labs
Making government data usable is hard work! -
Transparency Timeline
A History of Congressional Public Access Reform. -
Capitol Words
Taking Congress at its Word. -
2009 Tariff Suspensions
See Who’s Seeking Tax Breaks on Imports from Congress -
Transparency Jobs
Bringing Transparency to Government, One Job at a Time -
Capitol Tweets
Keep up on the latest tweets from members of Congress who use Twitter. -
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 -
Party Time!
Documenting the Political Partying Circuit. -
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
