Today’s National Journal has a story on Congress’s best and worst committee websites. Sunlight participated in the evaluation process, and the results are available here. My favorite comment is by the communications director for one of the committees about his committee’s (old) website: “Everybody hates it, and it’s not user-friendly, and it sucks.”
A month or [...]
Entries from November 2009
Ranking Committee Websites
November 30th, 2009 · No Comments
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Bulk Data Access to US Code
November 30th, 2009 · No Comments
The U.S. House’s Office of Law Revision Counsel has collected bulk text data from the United States Code dating back to 1991 and posted it here:Â http://uscode.house.gov/zip/bulktextdata
More info:
This is the data in the “pls” format (plain text). Â There is a ZIP file for each year that contains the entire USC….
This data was previously available by [...]
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Reducing the Paperwork Reduction Act
November 25th, 2009 · No Comments
I’ve been looking at the Paperwork Reduction Act after learning of concerns that the law limits the government’s ability to use voluntary web surveys to gather information. What I’ve discovered is a series of good-government rules that were intended to reduce the paperwork burden the government places on each of us, but had the unanticipated [...]
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AP: It’s not that hard to read the (health care) bill
November 24th, 2009 · No Comments
For the last umpteen months, Sunlight has been promoting legislation that implores legislators to “read the bill“: requiring legislation and conference reports to be made available on the Internet for 72 hours prior to consideration. In recent weeks, much ado has been made over the length of the various health care legislative proposals, and whether [...]
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