Here’s some of the top requested information regarding the bailout bill.
**For updates on the New Senate Bailout Bill, see this post. -John, 10/1/08
The bailout bill number is HR 3997. Here is its page on OpenCongress.org, and a page on GovTrack.us comparing different versions of the legislation, several of which are described here. [...]

(cross-posted from the Sunlight Blog)
Congress took a real step today toward legislative transparency, proactively posting the proposed bailout legislation in public, online, in advance of floor consideration.
To give citizens a chance to fully digest and comment on the proposed legislation, we’ve posted the text of the legislation to PublicMarkup.org for public review.
On Friday Ellen blogged [...]

Since servers are getting slammed on the hill, (at the bill’s origin) here’s a mirrored version of the bill: (the final version, which Speaker Pelosi said will be the version brought to the House Floor)

http://assets.sunlightfoundation.com/pdf/eesa2008.pdf
and an embedded version:

http://issuu.com/johnwonderlich/docs/ayo08c04_xml515pm

Get your own – Open publication

Sunlight is working on getting a copy up on PublicMarkup.org as soon as [...]

NPR’s On the Media covers CREW’s lawsuit against the Office of the Vice President, the ACLU’s efforts to get detainee pictures released, and a new OLC memo bill from Senator Feingold (S. 3501)and Rep. Brad Miller (anyone know the House bill number?).  As usual, I wish news coverage would include bill numbers…

I recently read in Who Needs to Know that the General Accountability Office doesn’t put all of their reports online, as I’ve probably mistakenly implied before.
It seems that there’s a designation for GAO reports for “not online”, or “no internet”, whereby the GAO makes the reports available only by specific request, but bypassing their normal [...]

As Ellen just posted on the Sunlight Blog, here’s a chart showing individual campaign contributions over time, using gapminder and google visualization tools.  For more details, see Ellen’s post.

Carl Malamud, in a typically brilliant aggressive posture, has posted the public safety codes incorporated by reference into the California state code.
This is a slightly different fight than the one he fought in Oregon, where copyright was being asserted over the law.  State laws often incorporate other publications into law, by saying something like “the [...]

A quick post to point out the new Vital Statistics on Congress, from Brookings.  It’s brimming with substantial stats and charts on the institution of Congress, and I’m looking forward to reading it in more detail.