Press Articles
- 06/27/2008 Watchdogs Ask: What About the Bundlers?
- 06/26/2008 Campaign finance
- 06/26/2008 Think Past the Internet ATM
- 06/25/2008 Heard on the Hill
- 06/25/2008 Groups ask greater disclosure from McCain, Obama
- 06/23/2008 A good example
- 06/23/2008 Web Sites Push For More Transparency and Accessibility In Government
- 06/17/2008 Veteran Ethics Aide Heads to Firm
- 06/14/2008 Editorial: Public outrage fails to halt lavish spending on pork
- 06/11/2008 Lobbying and Politics
- 06/10/2008 Editoral: Public needs more information on 'pork'
- 06/08/2008 Obama closes primary season by opening up
- 06/08/2008 Earmarks help benefactors' re-election bids
- 06/08/2008 Editoral: Earmarks don't have to go, but the process must be changed
- 06/08/2008 Editoral: Letting the sun shine on earmarks and on detainees
- 06/08/2008 Earmarked for profits
- 06/08/2008 Earmarking: Pork can bring home the bacon
- 06/04/2008 Open the Goverment.org's Sunshine Week panel
- 06/03/2008 Obama and Coburn Introduce Strengthening Transparency and Accountability in Federal Spending Act of 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
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
