ACTION: Tell Congress to Read the Bill Before Voting On It!

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Wednesday October 01, 2008 · 11:47 AM PDT

2008/10/01 · 11:47

How hard is it to figure out what is in a 451-page, just released bill? Pretty complicated if you take a look at the back-and-forth between FleetAdmiralJ, Hunter, and the 600 some odd comments flying across a now rec’d diary. Now imagine you have to vote for that very bill, a bill that some say determines our entire future, on the same day that it was introduced.

If you care about your representatives reading and understanding this legislation before they walk down that aisles of the Senate chamber for their "Yeas" and "Nays" please join the Sunlight Foundation in their petition to urge congressmen to allow a full 72 hours period to pass before a vote is held on the bill. A bill of this magnitude requires 72 hours for the public and their elected representatives to understand, discuss, and debate the myriad proposals squashed into one bill.

You can find and sign the petition here.

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Monday January 14, 2008 · 3:15 PM PST

2008/01/14 · 15:15

Back in the fall of 2006, bloggers were furiously looking into Sen. Joe Lieberman's campaign finance filings to try and determine which Republican interests were backing up the freshly Independent Connecticut Senator in his campaign to hold onto his Senate seat after being defeated in the Democratic primary. The only problem was that Lieberman's campaign finance reports were impossible to find. This is because Senators file their campaign finance data on paper, as opposed to electronically, requiring the FEC to painfully reenter all the data into computers so that you and I can access it. It takes months for the FEC to get all the data online and into your hands, thus 4th quarter campaign contributions don't get reported until after the election.

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Wednesday December 19, 2007 · 7:52 AM PST

2007/12/19 · 07:52

Reps. Brad Miller and Linda Sanchez will be hosting a live blog session at TPM Cafe at 11am to discuss their bill to give bankruptcy relief to certain mortgage holders. If you have any interest in this issue or have had any experience dealing with bankruptcy or the mortgage mess make sure and stop by so that your voice can be heard.

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Monday May 14, 2007 · 11:33 AM PDT

2007/05/14 · 11:33

There is currently a lot of concern about the passage of lobbying and ethics reform in the House right now. VirginiaDem has a call to action to make sure that this bill passes. There is something else that you can do to make sure that this bill includes provisions that address transparency in Congress, not just in lobbying. The Sunlight Foundation is working to get the Judiciary Committee to include a provision that would require that Members' personal financial disclosures be filed electronically and put in a database online. We need citizens to call Speaker Pelosi and Members of the Judiciary Committee to indicate their support for this measure. (Follow this link to take action.) If you don't understand why this is important keep reading.

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Wednesday May 10, 2006 · 1:23 PM PDT

2006/05/10 · 13:23

Logs released to Judicial Watch and Bloomberg News indicate that Jack Abramoff visited the White House at least twice.

From Bloomberg (sorry no link yet):

May 10 (Bloomberg) -- Lobbyist Jack Abramoff, now at the center of a federal corruption scandal, visited the White House at least twice, in 2001 and 2004, according to logs released by the U.S. Secret Service.
The Secret Service agreed last week to release the records after being sued by the Washington watchdog group Judicial Watch, which sought them under the Freedom of Information Act. The Secret Service faxed the logs today to Bloomberg News, which had also sought the records.

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