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 in developing policies that guide this nation. Their centrality to the legislative process may be generally underappreciated because of a lack of meaningful public access. To address this, committees should post their proceedings and documents online to highlight their work and their central function to the work of Congress.
A good companion to the discussion of committee resources can be found in Mark Tapscott’s column today in the Washington Examiner:
Neither Democrats versus Republicans nor liberals versus conservatives will define 21st-century politics. Citizen legislators versus career politicians will. The citizen legislators will win by embracing the Internet and the wisdom of crowds.
We can expect to see political discussions and messaging start to take a new, more constructive, more substantive form as people start to grasp the transformative potential of digital politics.
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