Here is Thursday’s look at transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency-related events.
News Roundup:

Some are criticizing the Obama administration for reneging on transparency after HUD told housing advocates that they must sign confidentiality agreements to continue participating in a rental policy working group. (Politico)
House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman [...]

Here is a look at what happened recently on the Sunlight network.

Paul Blumenthal began the day with several transparency headlines including a vacated proposal by the Obama Administration to enhance contract transparency, Bloomberg’s information lobbying, and more. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
Nicole Aro has announced the Influence Explorer Valentine’s Day cards highlighting the lobbying history of February 14th’s biggest [...]

Here is a look at what happened yesterday on the Sunlight network.

Paul Blumenthal began the day with several transparency headlines including the unveiling of the Real Time Congress API from Sunlight Labs, news that low corporate tax rates are aided by lobbying, and more. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
Paul Blumenthal reported that lobbyists help lower corporate [...]

Here is Thursday’s look at the week’s transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency-related events.

Here is a look at what happened yesterday on the Sunlight network.

Paul Blumenthal began the day with several transparency headlines including fundraising during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Koch Industries donations to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and more. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
Paul Blumenthal reported that Sen. Chris Dodd is in negotiations to become the next head [...]

Here is a look at what happened yesterday on the Sunlight network.

Paul Blumenthal began the day with several transparency headlines including the Office of Congressional Ethics report on the fine line between fundraising and legislating, Apple’s new GOP lobbying team, and more. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
Laurenellen McCann unveiled the survey for TransparencyCamp 2011. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
Daniel Schuman announced the [...]

Here is Tuesday’s look at the week’s transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency-related events.

Here is a look at what happened yesterday on the Sunlight network.

Paul Blumenthal began the day with several transparency headlines including news that the White House’s envoy to Cairo has business ties to the Egyptian government, the restrictions on corporate donations to the 2012 Democratic National Convention has loopholes, and more. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
Paul Blumenthal highlighted articles from [...]

Here is Monday’s look at the week’s transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency-related events.

Here is a look at what happened recently on the Sunlight network.

Paul Blumenthal began the day with several transparency headlines including news that the FCC will now require all oral ex parte communications to be documented, questions of relevancy of the Senate Ethics Committee, and more. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
Paul Blumenthal ended the day highlighting news that the 2012 [...]