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Ellen Miller talked about how the Sunlight Foundation uses the Internet to provide transparency in government by exploring how money, lobbying, and other relationships influence the politica…

The Sunlight Foundation announced recommendations from its Open House Project to increase the transparency of the U.S. House of Representatives and make its operations more available to citi…

Three supporters and three opponents of political term limits examined whether term limits would address such problems as special interest influence and the power of incumbents. The event w…

Ms. Miller talked about ethics and lobbying reform. She co-founded a new group whose purpose was to help the public learn more about the activities of Congress and their elected representati…

Former vice-presidential candidate John Edwards gave the luncheon speech at the “Take Back America” progressive policy conference. Among the topics he addressed were economic conditions for …

At the Campaign for American’s Future 2005 “Take Back America” conference Bracken Hendricks, executive director of the Apollo Alliance, received a special service award for his efforts on be…

Campaign for America’s Future hosted a “Take Back America” conference at the Marriott Wardman Park hotel. This portion of the program featured speeches by politicians, activists, and others.…

“Unconventional” politicians and commentators gathered to discuss and debate the issues as an alternative to the scripted major party events. Senator McCain emphasized the campaign finan…

A bipartisan task force of freshman members of Congress heard from former members, campaign finance experts and public interest group representatives. Representatives Asa Hutchinson (R-AR) a…

Ms. Miller and others briefed reporters on grassroots ideas on campaign finance reform which have not been proposed by the president or members of Congress. They took questions from the pres…

Participants released a report on some of the major contributors to 1996 congressional and presidential campaigns compiled from Federal Election statistics. They criticized several aspects o…

Partcipants discussed the idea of providing candidates with free air time for political advertisements, which would greatly reduce a candidate’s need for large amounts of money to buy televi…

Current news events and political issues were examined through reviews of the morning newspapers; interviews with journalists, newsmakers and legislators; and viewer telephone calls, faxes a…

Guests discussed political action committees and proposals to require public financing of campaigns. Ellen S. Miller, Center for Responsive Politics, recently wrote that election 1994 is the…

Center For Responsible Politics hosted a discussion on Political Action Committees contributions with Ellen Miller, Larry Makinson, and Joshua Goldstein. The participants discussed Political…

The John F. Kennedy School of Government held a forum on campaign finance reform discussed the possibilities of reform in the coming terms.

In his keynote speech, Deputy Presidential Assistant William Galston discussed President Bill Clinton’s successes and failures during his first two years in office, and speculated on his leg…

Three media analysts spoke in a panel in a discussion at the National Press Club on media ethics, specifically concentrating on the possible conflicts of interests involved in persons who al…

The guests discussed the ethical issues pertaining to the presidential transition. The focused on Governor Clinton’s promise to apply stringent rules to the appointment of transition aides.

Staffers from the Center for Responsive Politics spoke in a news conference to announce the findings of their report on campaign contributions in the 1992 campaigns. Issues covered by the re…