Paul Blumenthal
Paul Blumenthal is a Research Assistant of the Sunlight Foundation and author of the blog, "In Broad Daylight," which tracks daily news on money in politics and reform in Congress. Prior to joining the Sunlight Foundation, he interned at Campaign for America's Future working on its Project for an Accountable Congress. During the 2004 election season, he worked for Rock the Vote as a Research Assistant to the Political Director and as the author of the Rock the Vote blog. He recently graduated from New York University's Gallatin School for Individualized Study and is a native Washingtonian.
Paul has been writing up a storm...
- New Earmark Reform Push in the Senate January 8, 2009
- Sunlight @ Google January 9th January 7, 2009
- Earmark Disclosure Diaspora January 7, 2009
Recent Sunlight Foundation Projects
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Transparency Timeline
A History of Congressional Public Access Reform. -
Capitol Words
Taking Congress at its Word. -
2009 Tariff Suspensions
See Who’s Seeking Tax Breaks on Imports from Congress -
Transparency Jobs
Bringing Transparency to Government, One Job at a Time -
Capitol Tweets
Keep up on the latest tweets from members of Congress who use Twitter. -
The Open Senate Project
A bipartisan, collaborative initiative to study the Senate's current information-sharing practices -
FARAdb
A proof of concept site based on Foreign Agent Registration Act data -
Read The Bill First
Sign the petition! Demand they take at least 72 hours to read the bailout bill! -
Pass S.223
We need your help to pass S.223. -
Party Time!
Documenting the Political Partying Circuit. -
Public Markup
An experiment to open bills to online, public review. -
EarmarkWatch
Bringing Citizen Oversight to Congressional Spending. -
Visualizing Earmarks
Select Visualizations of 2005 OMB Earmark Data. -
Where Are They Now?
Former Congressional Staffers head through the Revolving Door
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