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WASHINGTON, DC –Today, the Sunlight Foundation released a revised version of its model transparency legislation—the Transparency In Government Act of 2008—which incorporates suggestions posted to PublicMarkup.org during the bill’s public review period. Sunlight posted the bill online in March and invited the public to analyze and further shape the omnibus transparency bill the Foundation drafted.
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WASHINGTON, DC – At least 76 lawmakers have disclosed their fiscal year 2009 earmark requests online, with a majority posting their requests on their official Web sites and another 11 disclosing directly to the media. An additional 46 have foregone earmarks for fiscal year 2009, while 10 members of Congress said they will not disclose their earmark requests. All these findings are according to a collaborative study by citizen journalists organized by the Sunlight Foundation in conjunction with Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) and Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS).
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WASHINGTON, DC – In the hours since Sunlight launched “Let Our Congress Tweet,” the first petition to Congress based on the social networking site “Twitter,” hundreds of Americans have called on Congress to create clear guidelines about how lawmakers can use the Internet to communicate using Web services like YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and MySpace.
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WASHINGTON, DC – In celebration of Independence Day, the Sunlight Foundation today launched PoliQuiz, a new interactive political trivia game that provides a fun way for citizens to test their knowledge about their elected officials and the legislative process.