Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group

Sunlight Live team to cover GOP national security debate

By Katy Schultz Nov 21, 2011 3:32 p.m.

The Republican Presidential candidates will meet this Tuesday in the nation’s capital to debate national security, just as they did in South Carolina just two weeks ago. Tuesday's debate will be hosted by CNN and sponsored by the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute and the Sunlight Live team will cover it.

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Sunlight Live Team to Cover "Super Committee" Discussion of Simpson-Bowles and Previous Debt Proposals

By Katy Schultz Oct 31, 2011 midnight

The so-called super committee will meet in public tomorrow for only the fourth time, when it looks at recent efforts to reduce the debt in a session titled “Overview of Previous Debt Proposals."

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Sunlight Live Team Prepares for Oct 11 Debate

By Katy Schultz Oct 7, 2011 midnight

Tuesday, Oct. 11, will mark the 9th Republican presidential debate, two weeks after a string of debates in Florida, California and South Carolina. Sponsored by Bloomberg News and the Washington Post, this next matchup of Republican rivals will take place at Dartmouth University in New Hampshire. The Sunlight Live team will once again provide a live video feed, as well as real-time analysis, fact checking and context to help keep viewers informed.

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Fourth "Supercommittee" Meeting to Review Tax Code

By Katy Schultz Sep 21, 2011 10:48 a.m.

Thursday morning the Super Committee will convene for the fourth time since its creation in response to the debt crisis over the summer. The committee, officially named the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, conducted a breakfast meeting behind closed doors Sept. 15, despite the insistence of transparency by government watchdog groups and fellow legislators. Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., released a statement expressing his disappointment regarding the private breakfast.

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Sunlight Live to cover Super Committee meeting on Tuesday

By Katy Schultz Sep 12, 2011 12:18 p.m.

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Sunlight Live to cover first "Supercommittee" hearing

By Katy Schultz Sep 7, 2011 noon

After a quick summer recess, Congress returned this week with the newly formed “Supercommittee” scheduled to hold its first debt reduction meeting this Thursday at 10:30 a.m. EST. Unlike the debt negotiations held earlier this summer, the Supercommittee meetings will be conducted openly and we’ll be there to provide live fact checking, context and analysis so you can better understand the tanlged web of money and politics and how it relates to these meetings.

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Lobbyist cash flows to Warner, possible Super Committee member

By Katy Schultz Aug 9, 2011 3:15 p.m.

Creation of the “super committee” has been met with mixed reactions in Congress. While several members have called for its immediate repeal, others have balked at the idea of serving on it. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., however, has said he would “love” to serve on the bicameral, bipartisan committee charged with addressing the country's debt problems.

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