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Articles and blog mentions:

• Washington Examiner: House GOP pushing 'Read the Bill' on America Speaking Out
• Washington Examiner: House GOP pushing 'Read the Bill' on America Speaking Out
• Inman News: Craigslist best practices
• Inman News: Craigslist best practices
• The Huffington Post: Marcia G. Yerman - The Personal Democracy Forum Is Back in Town
• The Huffington Post: Marcia G. Yerman - The Personal Democracy Forum Is Back in Town
• The Washington Post: Maryland Politics - Kratovil: Give members more time to read bills
• The Washington Post: Maryland Politics - Kratovil: Give members more time to read bills
• The Huffington Post: Jake Brewer: 72 Hours for Defense Appropriations Bill
• The Huffington Post: Jake Brewer: 72 Hours for Defense Appropriations Bill
• San Francisco Examiner: Blink and Congress spends $1.1 trillion
• San Francisco Examiner: Blink and Congress spends $1.1 trillion
• Rhymes With Clown: Appropriations Bills Move Forward.
• Rhymes With Clown: Appropriations Bills Move Forward.
• Joshua Tauberer’s Blog: Congress, Cosponsor These Bills
• Joshua Tauberer’s Blog: Congress, Cosponsor These Bills
• Mic Check Radio: Segment in a Box: How to Count to 72
• Mic Check Radio: Segment in a Box: How to Count to 72
• Mother Jones: MoJo: On Reading the Bill
• Mother Jones: MoJo: On Reading the Bill
• And So it Goes in Shreveport: Here Comes Obamacare: Melt the Phones!
• And So it Goes in Shreveport: Here Comes Obamacare: Melt the Phones!
• Nextgov: Open government conference sponsor takes flak over its software
• Nextgov: Open government conference sponsor takes flak over its software
• Examiner.com: Rep. Michele Bachman wants 'House call' from ordinary citizens
• Examiner.com: Rep. Michele Bachman wants 'House call' from ordinary citizens
• Public Intelligence Blog: Journal: House Republicans Use OpenCongress.org + Amplify.com to Discuss Bill
• Public Intelligence Blog: Journal: House Republicans Use OpenCongress.org + Amplify.com to Discuss Bill
• GovTrack.us Blog: House Republicans Use GovTrack to Read the Bill
• GovTrack.us Blog: House Republicans Use GovTrack to Read the Bill
• NJ Tax Revolution: Paranormal Activity Courtesy of the Sunlight Foundation
• American Sheep: Paranormal Legislative Activity — Sunlight Foundation Blog
• JasonPye.com: Paranormal Legislative Activity
• Washington Examiner: Beltway Confidential: Paranormal legislative activity captured on video in nation's capital
• Cato @ Liberty: Paranormal Legislative Activity?
• Technology Liberation Front: Paranormal Legislative Activity?
• Democracy for New Hampshire: Paranormal legislative activity: lobbyist footprints all over it...ReadTheBill.org
• The Huffington Post: Jake Brewer: Paranormal Legislative Activity
• amaraka.tv: Read The Bill Goes to The Hill
• The Daily News Online: Editorial: Baird's transparency effort earns honor, but his colleagues still aren't on board
• The Chronicle Online: Baird Honored For 72-Hour Rule
• Latte Republic: Sunlight Foundation collects 221,000 signatures in support of Read The Bill
• Congress Matters: Midday Open Thread
• Let Texans Run Texas: Congressman John Culbersons blog: AMERICANS DEMAND TRANSPARENCY FROM ELECTED OFFICIALS
• My Health and Lifestyle: Why read the final health care bill? Sunlight Foundation Blog
• Big Government » Blog Archive » Why We Need 72 Hours to Read Legislation, and How You Can Help
• Washington Examiner: Beltway Confidential: Read the bill, stupid
• Radio Vice Online: Senate health care bill (S. 1796) weighs in at 1,502 pages
• OpenCongress: Blog: Baucus Bill in Technicolorer, Legalese
• National Journal Online: Tech Daily Dose: Groups Push For 72-Hour Rule Hearing
• Republican Leader John Boehner: Pressure Builds on Speaker Pelosi to Back Read the Bill Reform
• The Hill's Blog Briefing Room: Watchdog coalition presses House leaders on 72-hour reading period for bills
• OMB Watch: Read the Bill Act Stalled in Congress
• Lockport Union-Sun & Journal Online: Lee says lawmakers need time to read legislation
• PolitiFact: Speed-reading the health care reform bill?
• WUSA9: Should All Congressional Bills Be Posted Online?
• FitsNews.com: What’s In “Obamacare?” You’ll Never Know …
• Latte Republic: Check out Sunlight Foundation's "Read the Bill Petition"
• The Hill: House Dems Have Often Waived Read-the-Bill Transparency Rules
• The Next Right: Boehner and Read the Bill: A Sign that Congressional Republicans are Starting to Get It and the Media Isn't
• Blog the Fifth: Way to go, Garrett!
• Zen Cybernaught: 72
• Ohio Preppers Network: Sunlight Foundation: Read the Bill
• Talkin' bout a Revolution: Ellen Miller on Transparency in Government
• Sacramento Conservative Examiner: HR 3200: Congress Needs to Read the Bill
• Politico: Read the bill? It might not help - Victoria McGrane
• Digital Citizen Pulse: Transparency vs. Responsibility
• sayeducate: Sunlight Foundation Promotes Political Transparency
• Latte Republic: Read the Bill
• fonz.net weblog: links for 2009-07-30
• Advice Goddess Blog: Yoohoo...That Isn't Thomas Jefferson Representing You
• Read The Bill: Ya Think?!
• Examiner.com: Activists are pressuring Congress to read and understand bills before voting on them
• Cato @ Liberty: Transparency- Obama’s Waterloo?
• Journal inquirerjournalism: Not too much to ask after from Congress, Citizens benefit of Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
• Journal Star: Not too much to ask from Congress
• MND: Yoohoo…That Isn’t Thomas Jefferson Representing You
• Think Tank West: Transparency: Read the Bill? See the Earmarks!
• Grand Rants: BREAKING: A Politician Tells the Truth!
• UrbanGrounds: Conyers: Why Should I Read the Damn Bill?
• Congressman Bill Cassidy : Latest News : Cassidy Co-Sponsors 72 Hour Rule
• Hot Button - Washington Times
• TransparentNevada's Blog: Recovery.gov hams up stimulus information
• Re/Creating Tampa : Reading is hard
• NBC Bay Area: Transparency in Politics
• Crapmuffins: Read The Bill
• monoblogue: Accountability on both ends
• Blog the Fifth: Discharge H. Res. 554
• We The People Politics: Actually Read the Bill Before Voting
• Raoul Pop: Read the Bill, Congress!
• Liberty's Life Line: Congressional Arrogance
• Ethiopian News: Will Congress Read Bills Before Voting?
• SEEING THROUGH THE LENSES - a new way of communicating!: Obama's Science Czar's Take On Population Control
• Independent Country: The Real Deal
• The Atlantic- The Daily Dish: Reading is Fundamental
• Instapundit: JEFF JACOBY- Lawmakers, read the bills before you vote
• The Boston Globe: Lawmakers, read the bills before you vote
• The Phoenix Sun: Solar News & Views from the American Southwest
• Drudge Retort: Site Calls for Congress to Read the Bills
• The New York Observer: Did You Digg It?
• Critical Bias: Quotes and Commentary- Jake Brewer
• PoliticalDerby.com: Would it kill you to read something?
• Cato @ Liberty: Broken Promises — to Voters and the New York Times
• Examner.com: Congress needs Reading 101
• Night Watchman: Let Freedom Ring Challenges Legislators to Pledge to Read All Bills before Voting
• Clark County Conservative: AG McKenna Endorses David Castillo For 3rd District
• ethics committee: They Don’t Expect Us to Care About the Roberts Amendment - above all Sunlight Foundation Blog
• Thinking Right with Jim Wooten: Bills should be required reading
• Congress Vehemently Opposed to Reading the Legislation It Votes On | OpenMarket.org
• CNSNews.com: Campaign Asks Congress to ‘Pledge to Read’ Bills Before Voting on Them
• Washington Times: EDITORIAL- Passing unread laws
• Newsmax.com: Conservative Group- Please Readthe Bills Before Voting
• NJ Tax Revolution: April 2008
• Stop Taking Soma!: John Boehner's Failed Gambit
• ConservaChick: Read the Bill!
• Pruning Shears : This Week In Tyranny
• Down Is Up: Cap and Trade
• Blog the Fifth: Read the Bill
• Across the Great Divide: Transparency Requires Time to Read.
• Berry Laker: Steve Kagen, 2010 Election File
• Colonial Serf Log: Will Congress Read Bills Before Voting?
• The World We'll Inherit: Readthebill.org: Sunlight Foundation Project Pushes for Mandatory 72-hour Period for Congress to Read Bills Before Voting
• LASSIE, GET HELP: My fool-proof, dog-proof setup for collars and tags
• the intramuralist (tm): MORE ENERGY NECESSARY
• Letters to the Editor, Pike County Times.com
• khou.com: Health bill on summer reading lists?
• POLITICO.com: Lawmakers challenged to read health care bill before voting - Carrie Budoff Brown
• GraniteGrok: Guinta slams Shea-Porter on her vote for new energy taxes on NH citizens
• The Olympian: Opinion - Time’s essential to properly review bills
• Uppity Woman: $800 billion 1500 page National Energy Tax Bill passes House. Bamboozled Again!
• Shine a little light on it: open government and accountability | Democracy for New Hampshire
• CNN.com: Lou Dobbs Transcripts
• YouTube, Lou Dobbs: Jake Brewer on CNN
• Puma P.A.C.: People United Means Action- Dear Senator
• CovenantNews.com: 'The Biggest Tax In American History'
• PA Pundits: Health Care – Cap And Tax – And More
• The Real Barack Obama: $800 billion 1500 page National Energy Tax Bill passes House. Bamboozled Again! (Updated)
• Kansas Medowlark: Modern Day Patriots protest “Cap and Trade” at Johnson County Courthouse
• Pennlive.com: Let legislators, public read bills before Congress votes on them - Midstate Editorials Patriot-News
• The Barefoot Mailmen: Our banana republic
• Clark County Conservative: Baird Sells Out Constituents….. Again
• Roll Call: Boehner Tries to Stall Energy Vote
• Live From Silver City: Read the Bill FAIL
• News 1: Avelino Maestas- Read The Bill Fail- Cap and Trade Edition - 2009-06-27
• Avelino Maestas: Read The Bill Fail: Cap and Trade Edition | Sonoma County Democracy for America
• Instapundit: TRANSPARENCY- The stink surrounding the Pelosi-Waxman-Markey cap-and-tax bill has become vomit-in…
• Clovis News Journal: Opinion- Cap and trade bill polluted by politics
• CongressDaily Mobile Edition
• The American Spectator: Democrats Rushing to Cap-and-Trade Suicide
• Climate Change Fraud: Chicago Tribune weighs in on Climate Bill- Too big, too fast
• Grist: The Climate Post: Deal or no deal
• South Puget Sound Libertarian
• Right Pundits: Who Reads the Legislation that Congress Passes?
• Life with Monkeys: Gird Your Loins, Again!
• Tom Nelson: What the frak is going on with the Cap and Trade bill? — Sunlight Foundation Blog
• Zen Cybernaught: Waxing on Waxman-Markey
• Chicagotribune.com: Too big, too fast
• The Epic Of The Fall: Jun. 25th, 2009
• Covering Florida: Florida taxpayers, you’re about to get fleeced on Cap and Trade
• Mother Jones :Cap and Trade in the Dark?
• PE.com: Climate rush- Editorials
• Cap-and-trade energy bill: Has anybody read those 1,200 pages? - TwinCities.com
• NC Media Watch: A mystery economic suicide note
• Kiarian Lunch: Waxman-Markey, evil mutant — can it be stopped?
• United Conservatives of Virginia: HR 2454 UPDATE
• DC Protest Warrior: United Conservatives of Virginia: HR 2454 UPDATE
• Tom Nelson: Will Congress Read Bills Before Voting?
• CBS News- Political Hotsheet: Will Congress Read Bills Before Voting?
• Conservatives4Palin.com: Thursday Open Thread
• The US Report: Sunlight Foundation crits Energy Bill as Dems target another industry
• Photon Torpedo Tube's Blog: Read The Bill- Cap and Trade Rushing Through Congress
• Nebraska Redneck (and proud of it): What the frak is going on with the Cap and Trade bill? — Sunlight Foundation Blog « Nebraska Redneck (and proud of it)
• National Journal Online- Under The Influence: Public In Dark On Details Of Climate Bill
• Commentarymagazine.com: Watching How Hopenchange is Made
• Champions Sun: Culberson- It is time to stop blind voting
• Republican Leader John Boehner: Transparency is the Victim of Another Broken Promise
• Russelldad's blog: I Endorse the 72 Hour Rule
• The Whig: Read The Bill
• 11 News: The end of midnight legislation?
• Personal Democracy Forum: Clearing the Cache: £3,817's Worth of "Rather Not Say, Thanks"
• NJ Tax Revolution: Middletown Tea Party - July 4, 2009
• Yuba.net: House Introduces Bill to Enact 72 Hour Rule Mandating Online Publication of Legislation Before Debate
• Let Texans Run Texas: Congressman John Culberson’s blog, 72 Hour Rule
• Huffington Post: Craig Newmark- No excuses. Time for Congress to ReadTheBill.org
• City Brights: Craig Newmark : No excuses. Time for Congress to ReadTheBill.org
• Eternal Vigilance: End Force-Fed Legislation!
• TAKE ACTION: Head-Lines
• Latte Republic: House Resolution 554 asks Congress to Read the Bill
• TRIAD WATCH: Transparency Transparency Where Have You Been? Here Comes The Sunlight Foundation
• KVNU: For the People
• 26 Dems: Read the Bill- The Sunlight Foundation
• American Conservative Daily: From our Friends at the Sunlight Foundation
• Roll Call: Boehner Suggestion on White House Web Site Gets Most Support
• Cato @ Liberty: Transparency- Good News / Bad News
• Washington Times - Obama ducks promise to delay bill signings
• Obama ducks promise to delay bill signings - Washington Times
• The Washington Times: Forecast cloudy for transparency
• Right At Home Blog: Read the Bill!
• Right At Home Blog: Read the Bill!
• Knoxnews.com: The 'ReadTheBill.org' petition drive
• Knoxnews.com: The 'ReadTheBill.org' petition drive
• Becks Cafe: Sunlight Foundation: Shining some light on our government
• Becks Cafe: Sunlight Foundation: Shining some light on our government
• AMERICAN NONSENSE: Paul Blumenthal: How Congress Rushed a Bill that Helped Bring the Economy to Its Knees
• AMERICAN NONSENSE: Paul Blumenthal: How Congress Rushed a Bill that Helped Bring the Economy to Its Knees
• Huffington Post: Paul Blumenthal: How Congress Rushed a Bill that Helped Bring the Economy to Its Knees
• Huffington Post: Paul Blumenthal: How Congress Rushed a Bill that Helped Bring the Economy to Its Knees
• Stupidica: Petition Paradoxical Politicians to Pass S. 482
• Stupidica: Petition Paradoxical Politicians to Pass S. 482
• The Daily WTF Obama!: AIG Bonuses Renew Call for Congress to Read Bills
• The Daily WTF Obama!: AIG Bonuses Renew Call for Congress to Read Bills
• CBS News: AIG Bonuses Renew Call for Congress to Read Bills
• CBS News: AIG Bonuses Renew Call for Congress to Read Bills
• Media Matters: CNN's Castellanos falsely claimed Dems "gave" bonuses to AIG execs
• Media Matters: CNN's Castellanos falsely claimed Dems "gave" bonuses to AIG execs
• StoogePigeon: A Letter From Ellen Miller, Sunlight Foundation [readthebill@sunlightfoundation.com]
• StoogePigeon: A Letter From Ellen Miller, Sunlight Foundation [readthebill@sunlightfoundation.com]
• Latte Republic: "Read the Bill" Petition to Congress
• Latte Republic: "Read the Bill" Petition to Congress
• All about MICROSOFT: Vote to ask the President if he will Support Read The Bill
• All about MICROSOFT: Vote to ask the President if he will Support Read The Bill
• Paola's Weblog: obama distractions
• Paola?s Weblog: obama distractions
• Milwaukee Live: Is every Bill an Emergency?
• Milwaukee Live: Is every Bill an Emergency?
• CNN.com: Commentary: Obama breaks promise on posting legislation
• CNN.com: Commentary: Obama breaks promise on posting legislation
• (on Life as Edward Jensen): Of course there was a bonus loophole!
• To the Point on KCRW: The Great Recession and the Erosion of Trust
• BuzzFlash.org: Want to Prevent Another AIG? Let the Sunshine In
• POLITICO.com: GOP licks chops over Dem stumbles
• What'd I Say?: Roundup and Commentary - 3/21/09
• YubaNet.com: Sunlight Foundation Statement on Bonus Exemption Provision in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
• MissTheda.com: Sign The Petition 2 Ask Congress 2 Read The Bill
• Weatherdem's Weblog: Read The Bill Petition
• CPA Success: When in doubt, follow the money...
• Stanford Robert Crown Law Library Blog: Read the Bill, please
• Politics West: Whooa, slow down, Congress
• Wingnuts & Moonbats: Tired of the stupidity
• Tsurch: Sunlight Foundation - Read the Bill: Stimulus Bill and Bonus Loopholes
• Both Sides of the Fence: Sunshine principle, not just for some but for everyone
• Electronic Frontier Foundation: Sunshine Week: Commonsense Transparency from ReadTheBill.org
• TransparentNevada: Introducting ReadTheBill.org
• The Columbus Dispatch : Huge bills often little read before quick votes
• Zen Cybernaught: Dollars: 787,000,000,000; Words: 185,947; Amendments: 485; Readers: 0
• Open-Government Blog: "Read the Bill"
• PR Newswire: Let Us Read the Bill
• Novalawcity: Department of Novel Ideas
• Faceless Bureaucrat: First Reading
• Washington Policy Blog: "Read the Bill"
• MarketWatch: Institute for Policy Innovation - Let Us Read the Bill
• Institute for Policy Innovation: Let Us Read the Bill
• YouTube: Read The Bill.org Federal News Tonight
• The IUSB Vision Weblog: Chairman Price Shows America What 9,286 Earmarks Look Like
• NJ Tax Revolution: Read the bill!
• Raising Eden: Read The Bill
• Life as Edward Jensen: Read The Bill!
• Latte Republic: Open Congress wants you to be Politically Savvy and Part of the Solution
• Techfun: Read The Bill: Improve the legislative process by posting bills online for 72 hours before debate!
• Mother Jones: Do You Think Bills Should Be Read Before They Are Passed?
• Electronic Frontier Foundation: minilinks for 2009-03-03 |
• Occasional Brief Observations: Read the bill!
• Yankee Philip: READ THE BILL ! ! !
• Just Some Thoughts: Time for Congress to Learn the 3Rs
• Republican Leader John Boehner:| Non-Partisan Center for Responsive Politics Calls for Transparency, Accountability in Democratic Congress
• Blog the Fifth: My Weekend @ Transparency Camp
• POLITICO.com; Glenn Thrush's Blog: Read the bill, okay?
• Notional Slurry: links for 2009-02-27
• DavidKilmer: Read the Bill, Group Tells Congress
• Medi a Mouse: "Read the Bill" Campaign Encourages U.S. Congress to Publish Bills before Debate
• Capital Eye: Read the bill, Congress -- is that too much to ask?
• Joho the Blog: RTFB
• carapace: Congress Didn't Read the Bill
• Mint Dollar: Read the bill, Congress ? is that too much to ask?
• Post Politics: Read The Bill
• The Hill Blog: ReadTheBill.org
• Random Mumblings: Reading is fundamental
• New Mexico Independent: TODAY'S BLOG ROUNDUP: Twittering, TIDDs and more
• Examiner.com: Sign the Petition to Read the Bill
• Personal Democracy Forum: Clearing the Cache
• MissTheda.com: Have You Read The Stimulus Bill?
• Mario Burgos: Read the Bill is a Good Idea
• Mount Virtus: Tell Congress to Read the Bill: Why Not Sign the Online Petition Today?
• OpenCongress Blog: Read the Bill
• Deserted After Dark: I'm Just A Bill
• The Sharing Cyclone: Lighting up Legislation
• Liberal Common Sense: Urge Congress to read bills and to make sure we can too
• Wired.com: Threat Level: Read the Bill, Group Tells Congress
• The Huffington Post: The Sunlight Foundation: Sign the Petition to ReadTheBill.org
• Federal Documents @ Earl K. Long Library: Ask Congress to...Read the Bill
• The Next Right: Time for the GOP to embrace transparency
• Center for Democracy & Technology: PolicyBeta: Read the Bill: reading a billion dollars a minute
• PostStar.com: Read the Bill campaign; Group wants bills posted 72 hours prior to vote
• Wichita Liberty: Read the Bill
• Conservative Thoughts and Profundity: Let Us Read the Bill
• OMB Watch: "Read the Bill" Campaign is Common Sense
• Joho the Blog: ReadTheBill.org
• cnewmark: Sunlight Foundation launches "Read the Bill"
• NWAnews.com: Fast Action on Stimulus Bill Reflects that of Patriot Act
• Hoi Polloi: Quotes for the week ending 15 Feb 2009
• InformationWeek: White House Solicits Public Comment On Economic Stimulus Plan
• KVNU's For The People: Obama's Myth of Transparency
• Knowing and Making: Bounded cognition and the stimulus bill
• The Next Right: Democrats Abandon Transparency for Stimulus Vote
• The Whited Sepulchre: Sunlight is the best disinfectant
• Laura Ingraham: Need to Know
• WORLD Magazine: Where's the transparency?
• Lynn Sweet: Give Congress, the public, time to read the stimulus bill before Congress votes
• Aeronaut: Faster than the speed of light
• techPresident: Daily Digest: A Note on Changes at techPresident
• The Hill Blog: Transparency In Legislation through 72 Hours of Online Availability
• The (Washington, D.C.) Examiner: Obama, Reid, Pelosi burn billions behind closed doors
• (St. Paul, Minn.) Pioneer Press: Sunlight Foundation: Post the stimulus bill online -- before it's signed into law