What should congressional committees’ Web sites look like in six months, or in five years?
The committee chapter of the Open House Project has a number of recommendations, which we’ve added to in the 11 months since the report’s release. I’d like to collect those in one place, and keep developing our recommendations for committee web designers. Ideally, each of these component pieces of information should have a set of best practices developed for them, articulated from a citizens’ perspective. (which we’ve done for a few things, see q+a, or RSS)
What am I missing on this list?
* members
* jurisdiction (from house or senate rules)
* committee rules
* hearing/markup schedule
* legislation (link to THOMAS)
* votes (structured data, if possible, although I don’t think any committees do this at all now)
* executive correspondence
* reporting from executive agencies
* hearing transcripts (preferrably both unedited and approved)
* video (embeddable, archived, and streaming) (huge opportunity for best practices here)
* oversight plan (as required by house rules)
* questions and answers (member follow up after testimony)
* RSS
anything else?
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