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Information Today
April 30, 2012 |
Scout -- A New Free Alert System for Government Information Sunlight Labs introduced Scout, a free alert system for the things you care about in state and national government. It covers Congress, regulations across the whole executive branch, and legislation in all 50 states.   |
Information Today
July 16, 2007
Barbara Quint |
Sunlight Foundation Adds LOUIS and Insanely Useful Websites for Congressional Observers Curious what your representatives are doing with your tax dollars? Ask LOUIS, the new search engine from the Sunlight Foundation. |
Information Today
April 14, 2011
Sue Polanka |
CQ Press Creates the Wow Factor With First Street Launched in early April by CQ Press, a division of SAGE Publications, First Street is soon to become the go-to resource for researching political relationships. |
Information Today
January 27, 2011
Peggy Garvin |
OpenGovernment.org Beta for State Legislative Data Along with a cooperative network of civic hackers, the non-profit Participatory Politics Foundation has launched OpenGovernment.org, a beta site for searching state legislative data. |
Information Today
September 27, 2012
Peggy Garvin |
Congress.gov Beta: An Early Look at a New THOMAS The Library of Congress noted that "the [current] system has been updated over the years, but [its] foundation can no longer support the capabilities that today's Internet users have come to expect, including access on mobile devices." |
Information Today
March 19, 2012 |
MapLight's New Political Transparency Tool -- Topic Pages The new tool allows journalists and citizens to search for and track bills by issue area in the U.S. Congress and in the California and Wisconsin State Legislatures. |
Wired
Kristina Shevory |
Ellen Miller: Make Washington More Like the Web The ideal of transparency and participation hasn't yet infiltrated another messy democracy -- the US government. |
Wired
November 2000
David Corn |
Filegate.gov The biggest Congressional scandal of the digital age: Politicians aren't putting public docs on the Net, and no one seems to care... |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2012
Tam Harbert |
Tech Industry Money in U.S. Elections With tech industry stakes low, so are campaign contributions |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2000
James V. DeLong |
Free Money Campaign finance "loopholes" are the best part of the system. |
Information Today
October 8, 2012 |
MapLight Money and Politics Data Set Launches MapLight, a nonpartisan research organization that reveals money's influence on politics, announced the launch of the MapLight Money and Politics Data Set, an easy-to-access, downloadable database of enhanced Federal Elections Commission campaign finance data for free public use. |
Geotimes
April 2004
Kendy & Vranes |
Breaking Down the Barriers: A Two-Part Series, Part 1 Although it is a tired cliche, knowledge is power, and nowhere is that more true than in legislative politics. Your members of Congress cannot do their jobs without citizens' input. In other words, they need to be lobbied. |
Salon.com
March 30, 2001
Suzy Hansen |
Let them spend millions Campaign finance reform stifles grass-roots organizing and harms American politics, says a member of the Federal Election Commission.... |
InternetNews
January 30, 2009
Kenneth Corbin |
Tapping the Constituency, Wiki-Style New collaborative writing tool aims to give noisy blogosphere a unified voice. Will the politicians listen? |
Information Today
June 20, 2013
Barbie E. Keiser |
Co-Sponsor a Congressional Bill and Track Its Progress Cosponsor.gov is a sweeping expansion of the Citizen Cosponsor Project. The new website will now feature every bill and resolution introduced in the House, from Republicans and Democrats. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2012
Tam Harbert |
Internet Giants Adopt New Lobbying Tactics Google and Facebook are spending heavily on traditional lobbying firms, even as they marshal their users to influence the U.S. Congress |
Reason
December 2005
Bradley A. Smith |
John McCain's War on Political Speech How the Arizona senator and other campaign finance reformers use the law to muffle critics and trample the First Amendment. |
Information Today
July 23, 2015 |
New Resources Shed Light on Election Spending The Money, Politics and Transparency initiative -- from the Sunlight Foundation, Global Integrity, and the Electoral Integrity Project -- introduced a set of resources that show how money plays a role in elections and political parties. |
Finance & Development
June 2011 |
Making Friends A strong connection exists between financial industry lobbying and favorable financial legislation. |
Reason
July 2001
Michael W. Lynch |
Prof. Smith Goes to Washington Federal Election Commission member Bradley A. Smith takes on campaign finance laws... |
Information Today
January 15, 2007 |
Library of Congress Unveils Beta of New THOMAS The Library of Congress has released a new beta version of THOMAS, its Web site that provides access to federal legislation and related documents. |
InternetNews
April 1, 2009
Alex Goldman |
A Movement Is Defined at Freedom To Connect The change from paper to digital media is part of a larger transition towards open government that could use your help. |
Reason
February 2005
Julian Sanchez |
Data: Money Keeps Talking The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 was supposed to reduce the undemocratic, corrupting influence of money in politics. Did it work? Not quite. |
National Defense
February 2006
Reeder & Hickey |
Defense Industry Political Activities: Do's and Don'ts Basic knowledge of the do's and don'ts of corporate political activity will prevent serious and potentially embarrassing pitfalls, and corporate leaders must know or be able to assess quickly the nuances before permitting any financial participation by anyone. |
Information Today
October 20, 2003
George H. Pike |
Database Protection Legislation Introduced in Congress On Oct. 8, 2003, the ongoing debate over the need for database protection returned to the floor of Congress with the introduction of House Bill 3261, the Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act. |
BusinessWeek
March 24, 2011
Paul M. Barrett |
REINS Act: Hogtie the Executive Branch! The Republicans' latest attempt to impede federal regulators is cloaked in sensible-sounding rhetoric. |
Managed Care
September 2003
John Carroll |
Some Lobbying Tactics Have Pols Seeing Red More than 600 groups have lined up against association health plans, lobbying exhaustively against them in Congress. But the manner in which the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association went about it raised some hackles. |
CFO
July 1, 2004
Tim Reason |
Office Politics Banned from making political donations, U.S. companies harvest them from employees instead. |
Information Today
March 11, 2013
Barbie E. Keiser |
Government Data an Enigma No More (Beta) Enigma Technologies, Inc. is a new search and discovery platform (enigma.io) designed to allow subscribers to delve deeply into (public) data from municipal, state, federal, and even international organizations. |
Foundation News & Commentary
May/Jun 2006
Brian Flahaven |
Time Well Spent Foundations on the Hill 2006 participants talk about the value of meeting with members of Congress and their legislative staffs. |
AFP eWire
September 25, 2006 |
Congress Approves Database of Federal Grants, Contracts Congress has passed legislation (S. 2590) that would create a searchable database of all federal government spending, including grants to charities. |
Information Today
April 11, 2011
Barbie E. Keiser |
Got Government Data? Not Anymore! Last week we learned that this noble project -- emblematic of the 21 st century approach to information, technology, and society -- has become one of the many victims of federal government belt tightening. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 25, 2012
Michael Blanding |
A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C. New research suggests the number of companies affecting government policy through lobbying may be smaller -- but more powerful -- than previously thought. |
Salon.com
October 4, 2001
Damien Cave |
The war on special interests Anti-terrorist fervor has upset the political apple cart: Long-entrenched lobbyists are suddenly being defeated and ignored. But will they soon resurface? |
Geotimes
May 2004
Kendy & Vranes |
Breaking Down the Barriers: A Two-Part Series, Part II Part two in a series on how to effectively lobby your members of Congress. |
AFP eWire
January 31, 2005 |
Care Act Included in "Top Ten" Priorities for 109th Congress The Charity Aid, Recovery and Empowerment (CARE) Act has been introduced this year as part of Senate Bill 6 (S. 6), which is one of the top ten legislative priorities for the 109th Congress over the next two years. |
The Motley Fool
June 17, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Why Congress Loves Bank Stocks Little wonder that in a world where Congress can legally trade on inside information, the most faith is put in companies where Congress' actions influence most of the outcome. |
The Motley Fool
January 4, 2012
John Reeves |
Let's Thwart America's Criminal Class A handy bibliography for the STOCK Act, proposed law that is designed to prohibit Senators and Representatives from trading securities based on nonpublic information. |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2011
Rich Smith |
Dear Congress: Please Stop Robbing Us It's time to pass the Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge Act. |
Information Today
September 9, 2010 |
Library of Congress Implements Third Major 2010 Enhancement for THOMAS Latest enhancements add a mobile-friendly homepage, integrate features from the Library of Congress and Law Library of Congress websites into THOMAS, and add a new portal to state legislature websites. |
The Motley Fool
May 18, 2010
Rich Smith |
Highway Robbery on Capitol Hill Could it be that some politicians are just as guilty of engaging in financial shenanigans as the bankers they love to castigate? |
Search Engine Watch
February 21, 2011
Andrew Girdwood |
14 Tips for Making the Most of Feeds Seven tips for using feeds from other sites to ensure you're among the first writing about a topic, and seven tips for using your own site's feeds to grow and keep your audience. |
