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Pai Renominated Ahead of Senate FCC Oversight Hearing
WASHINGTON D.C. — Today, the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on oversight of the Federal Communications Commission. Yesterday, Chairman Ajit Pai was renominated...
#66: Government Transparency
These days, it costs almost nothing to publish information online. So why isn’t more government information available to the public? Taxpayers spend $100 million a...
FCC Process and Transparency Still Matter
Now that the FCC has released its new reclassification order, it is worth remembering past complaints about the FCC’s transparency and process problems. Their relevance...
Obama Used to Care about FCC Transparency—before He Was President
Republican Commissioners Ajit Pai and Mike O’Rielly have asked FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to do what [85%] of the American people want: publish his 300+...
Bipartisan Senate Duo Presses Obama to Revitalize USA Freedom Act
The gutted version of the USA Freedom Act that passed the House would fail to bring transparency to the federal government’s surveillance activities. That is, unless, the...
TF Calls for Increased Public Access to Government Data
In a new letter to the House Committee on Appropriations, we joined with the Congressional Data Coalition and 17 other organizations to call for increased...