For political leanings I turned to the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit that tracks campaign finance.
And the NRA spends 4, 143 times what the Brady Campaign spends on campaign contributions, the Sunlight Foundation found.
On Thursday, the company announced a partnership with the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit group that exposes legislative issues such as pork-barrel spending.
Outside spending on the race is roughly evenly divided between left and right, though conservatives have gained a slight edge recently, according to the Sunlight Foundation.
Launching an online town hall meeting will allow more effective communication with citizens, said Ellen Miller, executive director at the Sunlight Foundation, a group that advocates government transparency.
Ellen Miller, executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, describes the Helium partnership as a "grand experiment" that will allow the group to reach more people through the Internet.
According to the Sunlight Foundation, a government watchdog group, the NRA spends 66 times more on lobbying than what the Brady Campaign to End Gun violence, the country's top gun control advocacy organization, spends.
Organisations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Sunlight Foundation and Avaaz.org have all voiced their concerns about the extent to which the government would be able to monitor private information.
The Sunlight Foundation's John Wonderlich wrote in a blog post that Cispa "is terrible on transparency" and that the shared personal data between firms and the government would be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation, which advocates greater openness, believes this opacity feeds concerns that the Chamber's main purpose is to act as a front for a subset of members on a relatively small number of controversial issues.
According to the Sunlight Foundation, as reported by Haley Sweetland Edwards in a great article in the Washington Monthly, over the two-year period from July 2010 to July 2012, the top twenty banks and banking associations met with just three agencies the Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and the CFTC an average of 12.5 times per week, for a total of 1, 298 meetings.
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Lawmakers in 36 states also have proposed legislation that would negate federal gun control initiatives, according to the non-profit Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group.
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