{"id":1594,"date":"2006-10-08T16:54:15","date_gmt":"2006-10-08T21:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2006-10-08T16:54:15","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T21:54:15","slug":"citizen-journalists-shine-light-on-congressional-spouse-hirings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/citizen-journalists-shine-light-on-congressional-spouse-hirings\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Journalists shine light on Congressional Spouse-hirings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunlightfoundation.com\/\">The Sunlight Foundation<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunlightlabs.com\/research\/familybusiness\/index.php\">Family Business Project<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunlightfoundation.com\/node\/1293\">asked citizen journalists to find<\/a> out how many members of the House of Representatives have their spouses on the payroll. <\/p>\n<p>In less than 2 days, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunlightlabs.com\/research\/familybusiness\/\">&#8220;Citizen Muckrakers have investigated 437 members of Congress, and tentatively found 19 spouses who were paid by a member&#8217;s campaign committee-totaling some $641,200 since January 1, 2005.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunlightfoundation.com\/node\/1302\">The organizers at Sunlight can hardly believe it themselves<\/a> &#8212; and they promised to start the verification process on Monday.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunlightlabs.org\/\"><br \/>\nSunlight Labs <\/a>offers a number of cool tools for watching Congress and they promise more.<\/p>\n<p>If you have skills, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunlightlabs.org\/job_intern.php\">they are looking for an intern.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunlight Foundation&#8216;s Family Business Project asked citizen journalists to find out how many members of the House of Representatives have their spouses on the payroll. In less than 2 days, &#8220;Citizen Muckrakers have investigated 437 members of Congress, and tentatively found 19 spouses who were paid by a member&#8217;s campaign committee-totaling some $641,200 since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9,10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-information-commons","category-news-of-news","category-virtual-communities","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}