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WASHINGTON, DC - The Sunlight Foundation is announcing its third round of grants for 2007 for projects that further the organization's mission of using the Internet to connect the public to information about the workings of Congress to better inform their civic engagement and increase transparency in Congress. The grants, totaling $350,000, are being awarded to MAPLight.org, the Center for Independent Media and The Focus Project's OMB Watch.
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WASHINGTON, DC – The Sunlight Foundation today launched a new search engine called LOUIS – the Library Of Unified Information Sources – to improve public access to federal documents through an all-inclusive, catalogued and cross-referenced collection of official documents from the executive and legislative branches of government.
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WASHINGTON, DC – The Sunlight Foundation today released an analysis by its Real Time Investigations team which graphically illustrates how Congress awarded earmarks in 2005 by agency, state and organization, as well as a searchable database of the earmarks and their recipients. Sunlight is also offering its standardized data in downloadable files, allowing researchers to further delve into the data.
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WASHINGTON - In the wake of House Appropriations Chairman David Obey's decision to insert all earmarks into secretive, un-amendable conference reports, a coalition of watchdog groups consisting of Americans for Prosperity, the Sunlight Foundation, OMB Watch and Taxpayers for Common Sense today unveiled an "Earmark Transparency Pledge," through which U.S. House lawmakers can publicly pledge their intention to follow the spirit of the earmark transparency reforms enacted earlier this year.
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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Sunlight Foundation announced a new contest that will award $500 for the first video capturing Senator Mitch McConnell on record answering (or refusing to answer) who is blocking passage of legislation that would require senators to file their campaign finance reports electronically. This contest is part of Sunlight’s new campaign that asks, “What’s McConnell Hiding?” through a billboard alongside I-65 in Louisville, Kentucky [map] that points readers to www.whatsmcconnellhiding.com, a new Sunlight Web site that prompts citizens to take action to promote transparency in the Senate by advocating for the passage of the Senate Campaign Disparity Act (S. 223).