Sunlight Foundation live-blogs the White House healthcare summit

The deal is that you can watch the summit video, along with real-time live-blogging by people who really know their stuff, specifically
regarding healthcare reform and also how influence is bought in
politics.

Here’s the deal:

We’re calling it Sunlight Live and it’s going to
bring together live blogging by our policy experts, Twitter
conversations from across the country and relevant facts on
congressional members in attendance at the Summit. Some of the things
you can expect to see displayed on Sunlight Live as the
politicians debate are campaign contributions that the person speaking
has received, their connections to lobbyists and industry, personal
finances, and key votes that the leaders have made on health care in
the past.

We’ll also be coming up with new ideas throughout
the day. We won’t know everything we’ll want to do until we hear what
our leaders have to say.

The idea behind this is that we want
to provide a greater understanding of why the elected officials have
staked out their positions on health care, and let the data do more of
the the talking.

We’re going to be going from the Summit’s beginning at 10:00 a.m. to whenever it ends (perhaps as late as 6:00 p.m.)