Press Articles
- 03/31/2008 Lawmakers tight-lipped on pet projects
- 03/31/2008 Superdelegate Transparency Project & Congresspedia on CNN
- 03/31/2008 Sunlight Foundation Asks The Public For Ideas On A More Accountable Government
- 03/30/2008 Central Texans in Congress push for earmarks, sometimes out of public view
- 03/27/2008 Walden's Earmark Requests Online, Bend Misses Out
- 03/24/2008 Fixing government
- 03/24/2008 ‘Ed McMahon Syndrome’? Gilhooley, Holden voice differences over earmarks
- 03/24/2008 Political link to the mortgage crisis
- 03/23/2008 Just Do It
- 03/20/2008 There's a whole lot of misbehavin' goin' on
- 03/14/2008 House OKs independent ethics board
- 03/12/2008 Super duper site
- 03/07/2008 Conor Kenny Speaks about SuperDelegate Transparency Project on XM Radio
- 03/04/2008 Obama Supporters in Brooklyn Warn the Superdelegates: 'Make Our Votes Count'
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
- New York Times: The Moment Blog: The Digital Ramble: Political Partying December 2, 2008
- The BOBs: Deutsche Welle: Blog Awards December 2, 2008
- 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
Press Mentions
- Obama White House To Embrace New Web Tools And Reach December 1, 2008
- 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
