Update: It looks like the markup will be held on Wednesday, June 6th; time and location TBA.
The House will have a chance to show that it values technology and science on Monday.

The Subcommittee on Legislative Branch Appropriations has a chance to reinstate funding for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, which hasn’t functioned since [...]

As we advocate technological public access reforms, I often find myself needing to articulate just what it is we’re trying to enable. Presumably, everyone on this list feels that an informed engaged citizenry is good for democracy, and that the Internet will be both the engine and the method for that engagement.
That’s a pretty [...]

I realized I should give a bit of a follow-up to explain why I was so unenchanted with the House’s attempts at ethics reform. As a disclaimer, I haven’t read the bill, so I only have my impressions from the Times article I linked to and the list of amendments on Paul Blumenthal’s blog at [...]

In response to Josh’s post earlier I’d like to explain that the Open House Project will happen independently of any sort of lobbying and ethics reform package. The current debate of lobbying and ethics reform, which we have been covering somewhat at the Sunlight Foundation blog, is over the House companion bill to the lobbying [...]

I recently came across the Library of Congress blog, where they now have this post up about preservation, linking to a WaPo Op-Ed:
An estimated 44 percent of Web sites that existed in 1998 vanished without a trace within just one year. The average life span of a Web site is only 44 to 75 days. [...]

This article from the NYTimes is a nice summary of where the ethics and transparency debate stands today. Practically nowhere. Last fall I was thrilled that ethics and transparency had become a major issue in the elections, and when the Democrats achieved their majorities, I was thrilled again, not because the majority would be Democratic, [...]

The Hill published today the next installment in the series on The Open House Project. Today’s Op-Ed is on committee websites, and discusses the content from the committees chapter of our report.
The Op-Ed begins:
The work of congressional committees, the vital organs of Congress, remains difficult for citizens to access, despite their central public role [...]

Steve Aftergood from the Federation of American Scientists has posted the latest explanation from Daniel Mulhollan of the Congressional Research Service (CRS) on why CRS leadership is concerned about efforts to have Congress publish their products (as recommended by The OpenHouseProject).
Aftergood’s blog has a great summary and rebuttal:
“First, there is a danger that placing CRS [...]

I just received this letter from Majority Leader Hoyer, endorsing the Open House Project.

A new story concerning citizen journalism access in Congress…
Via commonsense, originally from consumeraffairs.com…

The U.S. Senate Press Gallery has ejected ConsumerAffairs.Com reporter Joe Enoch after his credentials expired and Gallery officials refused to renew them.
I have no idea whether or not the ejection of this journalist was made for a good reason. The problem is [...]