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Let the sun shine on Congress

By Rebecca Carr | Thursday, March 6, 2008, 01:08 PM

Lawrence Lessig wants to curb the influence of money in American politics now that he has declined to run for Congress.

The Stanford Law School professor plans to come to Washington on March 20 to deliver a lecture about a way to shine light on corrupt practices in Congress.

Lessing is expected to launch his “Change Congress” project during his speech and describe “his decision to focus his academic interests on the issue of the systemic corruption of American democracy,” according to the Sunlight Foundation which is sponsoring the lecture with the Omidyar Network.

Lessig, a leading intellectual property rights expert, was pressed by colleagues and friends to run for Congress when Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., died. But he decided against it.

The lecture is just one event held by open government groups that week to focus the public’s attention on the growing level of secrecy in the federal government.

The lecture will be at 1:30 p.m. at the National Press Club here in Washington.

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