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TNReport TNReport's Open Government Talk Draws Impressive, Well-Informed Crowd » TNReport
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Environment and Natural Resources. Transparency and Open Records. Tenn10 Club Charter Members. Environment and Natural Resources. Transparency and Open Records. Tenn10 Club Charter Members. TNReport’s Open Government Talk Draws Impressive, Well-Informed Crowd. By TN Press Release Center. Press Release from TNReport.com New Service. Nov 29, 2012. The “Totally Transparent Pizza Party” hosted by TNReport and the Tennessee Coalition for Open Government. 2400 12th Ave. S. in Nashville. This state-run site giv...
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Brandeis And The History Of Transparency - Sunlight Foundation Blog
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Brandeis And The History Of Transparency. May 26, 2009, 10:47 am. I’m proud to present the third and final part in the series of research projects from the Sunlight Foundation spring semester interns. This post is by Andrew Berger, he spent time looking into the past and following Louis Brandeis career in transparency and how it relates to the current movement. Nisha Thompson. By Sunlight Foundation Intern, Andrew Berger. Article, entitled "What Publicity Can Do.". That latter definition sounds a lot lik...
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These Are The Richest Members of Congress
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Members of Congress ×. These Are The Richest Members of Congress. These Are The Richest Members of Congress. These Are The Richest Members of Congress. It is a lot easier to get around on Capitol Hill if money is not much of an issue. Using data from the Center for Responsible Politics, InsideGov found and ranked the 21 richest members of Congress based on their net worth in 2013. On more than the government-issued $174,000 salary (which politicians have said. Found and ranked the 21 richest members of C...
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Recent court decision supports better open data on America's nonprofits - Sunlight Foundation Blog
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Recent court decision supports better open data on Americas nonprofits. April 29, 2015, 9:59 am. The IRS. (Photo credit: David Boeke/Flickr). Recently, Carl Malamud. And his site public.resource.org. Effort to give the public better access. To data on America’s nonprofits. United States District Judge William H. Orrick of California wasn’t particularly impressed with this argument, and ordered. The IRS to produce the records as requested. Furthermore, this data is already public, the IRS just prefers to ...
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Democracy 2.0 Grant Summit - Money in Politics: September 2008
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Democracy 2.0 Grant Summit - Money in Politics. Tuesday, September 23, 2008. Message from Mobilize CEO. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending, and presenting, at the National Conference on Citizenship. It was the 55. Thank you again to the Sunlight Foundation, CSIS and Common Cause for your support and to all of the experts and judges who took time out of their busy schedules to work with our participants this weekend. Keep Mobilizin’ –. CEO, Mobilize.org. Sunday, September 21, 2008. No time to sleep.
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OpenGov Voices: MapStory: A data commons for a changing Earth - Sunlight Foundation Blog
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OpenGov Voices: MapStory: A data commons for a changing Earth. By guest author Jonathan Marino and guest author Daniel J. Dufour. Dec 13, 2013, 10:57 am. Disclaimer: The opinions expressed by the guest blogger and those providing comments are theirs alone and do not reflect the opinions of the Sunlight Foundation or any employee thereof. Sunlight Foundation is not responsible for the accuracy of any of the information within the guest blog. Is the Director of Content and Strategy at MapStory. With that c...
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Party Map - Political Parties and Lobbyist Map
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See what every Lobbyist Earns. See Where the Political Parties Like to Party in Washington DC. Map of Washington DC Hotels. This map is a free service by LobbyData.com. If you like this map you might want to try our other free and paid research tools. We'd like to thank the Sunlight Foundation. For providing the event data behind this map. Map of Washington DC Hotels.
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Sunlight's Response to SCOTUS Ruling on McCutcheon v FEC - Sunlight Foundation Blog
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Sunlights Response to SCOTUS Ruling on McCutcheon v FEC. April 2, 2014, 10:16 am. Today, the Supreme Court handed down its decision. On the campaign finance case,. McCutcheon v. the Federal Election Commission. Ruling that aggregate limits over direct contributions to political candidates are unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Sunlight's Lisa Rosenberg anticipated this ruling in late 2013, writing that the Supreme Court could " snuff out the last ember of the campaign finance system. As Mitch Mc...
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Sunlight Foundation Tools and Projects
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You should be able to get the information about government that you want and maybe even discover something unexpected. Check out Sunlight's noteworthy work. Explore and compare what Congress says. Explores the most popular words and phrases used by legislators in the U.S. Congress. Search the data from 1996 to today by state, date or politician. API is operating normally. Contacting Congress is now as easy as email. Foreign Lobbying Influence Tracker. Follow foreign influence on U.S. policy. Empowers the...
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CISPA is Terrible for Transparency - Sunlight Foundation Blog
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CISPA is Terrible for Transparency. April 13, 2012, 9:15 am. The new cybersecurity bill, CISPA, or HR 3523. Is terrible on transparency. The bill proposes broad new information collection and sharing powers (which many other organizations are covering. Even as the bill proposes those powers, it proposes to. Public oversight of this work. 2) USE AND PROTECTION OF INFORMATION- Cyber threat information shared in accordance with paragraph (1)-. Let's make something clear. The Freedom of Information Act.
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