On November 4, 2019, CfA called on the Florida Commission on Ethics to investigate whether Florida State Representative David Scott Plakon violated the Florida Constitution and state ethics laws by failing to properly disclose information about his myriad business interests on his personal financial disclosure forms.
On October 15, 2019, CfA and 22 other organizations wrote to the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs to express support for the Congressional Budget Justification Transparency Act of 2019. Additionally, on October 30, 2019, CfA and 27 other organizations wrote to the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform to express support for the Congressional Budget Justification Transparency Act of 2019.
On October 9, 2019, CfA released a new report, "Google’s Media Takeover," which documents how Google contributed more than half a billion dollars to news and media organizations around the world. In conjunction with the report, CfA also released a comprehensive database that contains information about each of the 1,327 grants Google gave to journalism initiatives. CfA’s report and database represent the most comprehensive effort to catalogue all of Google’s payments to media organizations.
On October 8, 2019, CfA called on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to investigate the conservative legal advocacy nonprofit Judicial Crisis Network for violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by sending mass robotexts from a misleading number during the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
On September 27, 2019, CfA joined a coalition of 20 groups endorsing the OLC Sunlight Act.
On October 4, 2019, CfA joined 76 other organizations in requesting that President Trump rescind his June 2019 Executive Order asking agencies to cut one-third of their Advisory Committees.
On September 27, 2019, CfA called on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to investigate whether the Montana-based anti-public lands nonprofit, Citizens for Balanced Use, violated its nonprofit tax-exempt status by engaging in substantial, unreported lobbying activity.
On September 19, 2019, CfA joined 34 other organizations in endorsing the Open and Responsive Government Act (S. 2220), which would codify the primary holding of Nat’l Parks & Conservation Ass’n v. Morton that commercial information is exempt as “confidential” under FOIA's exemption 4 only if disclosure of the information is likely to cause substantial harm to the competitive position of the person from whom the information was obtained.
On September 9, 2019, CfA joined 70 other organizations in calling on the House Judiciary Committee to take up and pass the “Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act” or “FAIR Act,” H.R.1423. On September 18, 2019, CfA joined 72 other organizations in a letter to House leadership urging the House of Representatives to pass the FAIR Act.
On September 9, 2019, CfA joined several organizations in encouraging the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations to increase the share of funding for the legislative branch as it decides upon 302(b) allocations for FY 2020.