Apps for America, 2009 The non-partisan nonprofit Sunlight Foundation/Sunlight Labs recently announced the winning Apps for America entries, including Filibusted (First Place for $15,000), Legistalker (Second Place for $5,000), Know Thy Congressman, Hello Congress, e-Paper Trail, and many more (16 winners, 40+ entries).
posted to Projects by sunlightfoundation at 8:50 AM on April 22, 2009

Read The Bill "Congress should change its rules to require that non-emergency legislation and conference reports be posted on the Internet for 72 hours before debate begins." An online petition and more, ReadTheBill.org's mission is to strengthen our democracy by making sure elected officials and citizens have the chance to read and understand legislation. The effort has been endorsed by a variety of organizations and is a project of Sunlight Foundation.
posted to Projects by sunlightfoundation at 5:07 PM on February 28, 2009

Pass S.223 To strengthen campaign finance disclosure, the US Senate must vote against the Ensign amendment (a poison pill) and then vote to pass S. 223. We need your help in identifying where senators stand on both the bill itself and the Ensign amendment. Just make a simple 5 minute call using the easy to follow script. A small task to help bring the US Senate into the modern era of disclosure and public access to campaign finance information.
posted to Projects by sunlightfoundation at 11:47 AM on August 6, 2008

Capitol Words - US Congress in a word a day Capitol Words gives you an at-a-glance view into the daily proceedings of the United States Congress through the simplest lens available-a single word. For every day that Congress is in session, Capitol Words displays the most frequently used word in the Congressional Record.
posted to Projects by sunlightfoundation at 9:52 AM on June 19, 2008

PublicMarkup.org from Sunlight Foundation The Sunlight Foundation has put together what we think can become model transparency legislation—the Transparency In Government Act of 2008—and we now need help to further shape and refine it. The Transparency in Government Act of 2008 is a broad legislative effort intended to make the work of Congress and the executive branch more transparent by creating laws and regulations that would bring more information online and available to the public in a timely manner. In addition to drawing on bills that have already been introduced, several provisions of the Transparency in Government Act of 2008 are the result of the collaborative work of the Open House Project.
posted to Projects by sunlightfoundation at 8:38 PM on March 31, 2008

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