- 12/23/2007 Carl Lavin On Washington And The World
- 12/20/2007 Editorial: Web makes life easier for the watchdogs
- 12/19/2007 Waterway funding raises questions
- 12/19/2007 ‘Airdrops’ for the Vulnerable
- 12/17/2007 In holiday season, new ethics rules play scrooge for state lawmakers
- 12/13/2007 Delegation leads in openness
- 12/13/2007 Congress Wants to Allow New Web Tools
- 12/12/2007 Montana delegation's Web schedules praised
- 12/12/2007 It's a Holly Jolly Holiday for Congressional Parties
- 12/06/2007 Cyberlawyer 2.0
- 11/30/2007 Progress on spending database creeps along
- 11/28/2007 With Lott's exit, fresh buzz over lobby rules
- 11/26/2007 Political correctness thrown into fray of 'dangerous city' report
- 11/26/2007 Household Exception for House
- 11/23/2007 Tech Talk: Track Congressional spending via Google Earth
- 11/14/2007 Earmarks Now Everybody's Business
- 11/14/2007 Democrats Pushed to Raise 'Breathtaking' $154 Million for Party
- 11/13/2007 Members of Congress also wait on FOIA requests
- 11/12/2007 Senate GOP leaders target earmarks
- 11/09/2007 Fair Game: Pork Spending
- 11/07/2007 Floor vote next for defense bill
- 11/07/2007 Coalition seeks public's view of government transparency issues
- 11/06/2007 Earmarks, Earmarks Everywhere
- 11/06/2007 Web site keeps tabs on pork barrel politics
- 11/01/2007 Another Snag for Electronic Filing Bill
- 11/01/2007 Hogging the road
- 10/31/2007 Specter's pet project: Sexual abstinence
- 10/31/2007 Senator blocking online disclosure
- 10/29/2007 Senators earmark $70 million for their old schools
- 10/23/2007 Online Government Information Not User-Friendly, Report Says
- 10/17/2007 Army of average Joes culls through candidates' files, bios
- 10/17/2007 Senate Hits Earmark Phone Calls
- 10/17/2007 Sen. Campbell Has the Floor?
- 10/17/2007 Senate Hits Earmark Phone Calls
- 10/15/2007 Earmarks Now More Visible, But is New Rule Full of Holes?
- 10/12/2007 Earmarks Put Candidates On the Spot
- 10/10/2007 Senate Earmark Reforms Quietly Gutted
- 10/05/2007 In first test, Congress narrows scope of ethics reform
- 10/04/2007 Charities Enlist Help to Review Legislation
- 10/04/2007 Jindal misses votes while campaigning
- 10/04/2007 Short Takes: News from All Over
- 10/03/2007 Put Senate donations online, bloggers say
- 10/01/2007 Long road ahead on earmark reform
- 10/01/2007 Horse sense: Lawmakers schedules welcome
- 10/01/2007 Earmarkwatch.org tracks Congressional pork
- 09/30/2007 Earmarks: Mum's the word
- 09/28/2007 Ensign: Mystery senator not me
- 09/27/2007 Campaign funding watchdogs suspicious as Ensign steps in
- 09/27/2007 State delegation leads way to federal transparency
- 09/26/2007 Ensign scrambles to explain objections to disclosure bill
- 09/26/2007 Mystery Still Surrounds Senate Filing Hold
- 09/26/2007 Gazette Opinion: A united front for openness
- 09/23/2007 Did nursing home company buy Schumer's help?
- 09/21/2007 Montana delegates first to post schedules online
- 09/18/2007 Seeing no downside, more lawmakers reveal details of their work schedules
- 09/17/2007 'Hotlined' Bills Spark Concern
- 09/15/2007 Board complicates Weller asset claim
- 09/12/2007 Election 2008: Will it be about the past, the future - or both?
- 09/10/2007 GPS technology gets to the ‘route’ of the problem
- 09/09/2007 Pet Projects' Veil Is Only Partly Lifted
- 08/22/2007 The journalism that bloggers actually do
- 08/17/2007 State to get only part of data from new traffic sensors
- 08/02/2007 Coburn calls for investigation into earmark-funded company
- 08/01/2007 Will Thompson Tip His Hand?
- 07/31/2007 House OKs ethics bill that emphasizes transparency
- 07/27/2007 Earmark Reform?
- 07/23/2007 Loophole Lets Candidates Skirt Donation Limit
- 07/19/2007 Charlie Rose interviews Craig Newmark
- 07/17/2007 Stevens gets second extension for filing finance report
- 07/11/2007 Gazette Opinion: Keeping track of Montana's delegation
- 07/10/2007 Government Good to Stevens’ Friends
- 07/08/2007 Government transparency
- 07/04/2007 McConnell's secret
- 06/24/2007 Why Alaska, not LI, is in the money
- 06/24/2007 New Life for an Open-Government Law
- 06/20/2007 Telling all on 'earmarks' easier said than done for lawmakers
- 06/19/2007 Modern world, ancient websites
- 06/13/2007 Coalition pushes Congress on earmarks pledge
- 06/12/2007 Improve databases
- 06/05/2007 Senator unmasked
- 06/05/2007 Preserving information
- 06/04/2007 Everybody Wants to Be a Director
- 06/01/2007 Group plans billboard to goad McConnell
- 05/21/2007 More access to committees
- 05/15/2007 Inexplicable anomaly
- 05/15/2007 GOP Silence Frustrates Online Activists
- 05/09/2007 Coalition pushes for Web 2.0 on Capitol Hill
- 05/09/2007 Open Congress
- 05/08/2007 New report describes practical steps to open the House
- 05/08/2007 No light in basement
- 05/08/2007 Campaigns make bottom-line adjustments, too
- 05/07/2007 A Bill, a ‘Hold’ and a (Possibly) Lying Senator
- 05/03/2007 Open Up
- 05/01/2007 Give bloggers Capitol access
- 05/01/2007 Shhhh. Money at work
- 04/29/2007 House Democrats: Get me rewrite!
- 04/27/2007 Undisclosed senator blocks disclosure
- 04/26/2007 Web Mashups Turn Citizens Into Washington's Newest Watchdogs
- 04/25/2007 Mystery of Hold Wrapped in Enigma
- 04/25/2007 Congressional Democrats Spell Reform: CA$H
- 04/20/2007 DoJ: foreign-lobbyist database to go online
- 04/19/2007 Sen. Ima Luddite (R)
- 04/19/2007 Confessions Of A Beltway Journalism Insider
- 04/19/2007 The TIME 100
- 04/17/2007 Democrats eclipse GOP fundraising
- 04/10/2007 Aides Escape Conflict Rules
- 04/08/2007 Lawmakers' sites faulted over lack of data
- 04/04/2007 Digging Deeper
- 04/02/2007 Pelosi right to encourage openness
- 03/27/2007 The See-Through CEO
- 03/26/2007 Group Says Web Sites Fall Short
- 03/23/2007 Watchdog works with agency to make feds’ largest database
- 02/26/2007 They aren’t laughing now about the Internet and government transparency
- 02/22/2007 The Sunshine Caucus
- 02/16/2007 Group launches Open House Project
- 02/14/2007 Bring on the Sunlight!
- 02/09/2007 Congress ought to punch a clock
- 02/08/2007 To Reform Congress, Shine A Light On It
- 02/02/2007 Capitol's Newcomers Try a Little Openness
- 01/31/2007 Shine a Light
- 01/30/2007 Ellen Miller - FOX News Sunday Power Player of the Week
- 01/28/2007 As Spending Deadline Looms, Congress Debates Earmarks
- 01/25/2007 Tester Aims for Senate Transparency Online
- 01/11/2007 Sunlight is the best disinfectant
- 01/09/2007 Lisa Rosenberg Joins Sunlight
- 01/08/2007 An Online Guide to Fast-Moving Power Brokers
- 01/07/2007 Sunlight reforms for Congress
- 01/07/2007 Bloggers take on Congress
- 01/03/2007 Open eyes on earmarks
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
Press Releases
Web Mentions
- Smart Mobs: Video Overview of OpenCongress December 1, 2008
- The Technology Liberation Front: Here Comes Democracy! December 1, 2008
- Citizen Tools: User stories for open government? December 1, 2008
- Sunday Times: Political life shouldn’t be a family affair December 1, 2008
- The Open Source Force Behind the Obama Campaign | Linux Journal November 25, 2008
Press Mentions
- Political life shouldn’t be a family affair November 30, 2008
- Obama harnessed the grass-roots power of the Web to get elected. How will he use that power now? November 24, 2008
- A Rewired Bully Pulpit: Big, Bold and Unproven November 23, 2008
- Obama Should Use Technology to Bring About Real Change November 20, 2008
- By the People: Citizen Involvement the Open Source Way November 20, 2008
