Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group

1. Super Committee, Boehner speech protests linked to major labor group

   By Chris Zubak-Skees Sep 16, 2011 12:03 p.m.

   Our DC, a SEIU-linked protest group that stopped the first Super Committee meeting, has been regularly delivering a pro-jobs message to congressional Republicans: with some 100 protesters outside House Speaker John Boehner's speech at the Economic Club of Washington yesterday, according to organizers, who said the protest was in support of the American Jobs Act.

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2. Sunlight Live to cover the hidden influence in Obama jobs address

   By Chris Zubak-Skees Sep 7, 2011 12:40 p.m.

   This Thursday at 7 p.m. President Barack Obama is set to address Congress and the nation when he’ll unveil his latest plan to create jobs. Already, a preview of the speech shows proposals consistent with the positions of influential groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO. Both groups have spent millions to influence elections and policies. With that in mind, the Sunlight Foundation will cover the speech with live video, data and commentary at sunlightlive.com.

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3. Super committee member Upton creates joint fundraising committee

   By Chris Zubak-Skees Aug 31, 2011 4:13 p.m.

   Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., one of the members of the Joint Select Committee for Deficit Reduction, filed paperwork Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission to create a joint fundraising committee. Contributions collected by the committee will be split between Upton's campaign and leadership PAC.

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4. Vendor blamed in outage paid $1.4 million last year for services

   By Chris Zubak-Skees Jul 27, 2011 6 p.m.

   Fireside21, a web services company fingered as a possible culprit behind the mass outage of congressional sites in the wake of Monday's televised presidential address, received over $1.4 million from House offices for web services last year, disbursement data shows. The total highlights the dominance of just a few companies providing congressional web services, a category in which five companies received 79 percent of the $5.5 million pie.

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5. Sunlight Live to cover Dodd-Frank anniversary hearing

   By Chris Zubak-Skees Jul 20, 2011 2:06 p.m.

   This Thursday, one year after the president signed a sweeping new financial reform bill into law, the Senate Banking Committee will ask tough questions of regulators in charge of making it real. And Sunlight will cover it live.

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6. And then there were eight Palin accounts

   By Chris Zubak-Skees Jun 21, 2011 4:58 p.m.

   How many email accounts did Sarah Palin use as Alaska governor? Last week, the answer, tallied in an earlier story, was “at least six.” This week, it’s “at least eight.”

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7. Palin used six email accounts as governor

   By Chris Zubak-Skees Jun 15, 2011 9:03 a.m.

   On Friday, reporters in Juneau, Alaska, began to sift through and scan more than 24,000 pages of emails to and from former Governor Sarah Palin, just released in response to requests made when she was governor. But they had full coverage of just two of her email accounts--and perhaps not the most interesting ones--because Palin had at least six accounts: one for public contact, one for internal state business, one for anything confidential and others for a mix of state and personal business.

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Investigations by Sunlight Foundation reporter Chris Zubak-Skees