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Documenting the Political Partying Circuit
From the early hours of the morning until late in the evening, politicians are partying. Sunlight's PARTY TIME can help you find out who is partying, where and when.

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Partytime • POSTED - 06.05.09 BY nancy

Report from Bonn

See my first impressions of the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum here.

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Partytime • POSTED - 12.01.08 BY nancy

Party Time wins the BOBs!

We’re proud and honored to say that Party Time is the winner of the “best English weblog” BOB award from Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international public broadcaster.

Apparently, the group of independent international journalists who make up the jury that decides these awards appreciate a good lobbyist sponsored party–or at least a blog about about them. We appreciate their good taste!

And we also are much impressed by our company. This year’s top prize went to Generación Y, a Cuban blog written by Yoani Sanchez. According to the BOBs award site, “Sanchez can’t even post her own entries to the blog. Despite the challenges she has to overcome, she’s managed to keep in contact with her readers and create a huge international community around her work.”

The BOB “Reporters Without Borders” award went to two blogs. The first is written by Zeng Jinyan, the wife of an imprisoned Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia. The second is 4equality, a Persian blog that fights for women’s rights in Iran.

You can read more about the BOBs, which are now in their fifth year, here. The Sunlight Foundation was proud to win the the top BOB prize back in 2006.

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Beneficiary: congressional candidate, lawmaker, or entity which collects funds raised at party

Host: person who is hosting party-often, but not always, a registered federal lobbyist

Venue Name: where the party is

Entertainment Type: type of gathering, such as "breakfast," "ski trip," "bowling"

Other Lawmakers Mentioned: lawmakers mentioned on invitation who are used as a draw for the event

Sunlight's Party Time is a project to track parties for members of Congress or congressional candidates that happen all year round in Washington, D.C. and beyond.

We also post information we receive about parties where members of Congress are expected to participate—such as convention or inaugural parties.

Since we don't hear about all the parties, you can also tell us if you know where the party is and we don't.