As I mentioned last night, S. 1: Commission to Strengthen Confidence in Congress Act of 2007 was passed by the House. The House reorganized the entire bill but left most things intact, and added their own House-only provisions. That means the bill goes to a conference committee to resolve the differences, but there aren’t so [...]
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S. 1: Revised Ethics Reform Bill
August 1st, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Congress · House of Representatives · OpenHouse · appropriations · committees
Staff Working Conditions
July 26th, 2007 · No Comments
I didn’t realize until recently the degree to which transparency reforms can benefit congressional staff.
Today’s Roll Call provides yet another example of how:
House e-mail server problems have left thousands of Capitol Hill staffers wringing their hands in frustration over the past two weeks as Congress has moved into its annual pre-August legislative crunch time.
Of about [...]
Tags: Congress · House of Representatives · OpenHouse · appropriations · askgeorge · email
House Leg Branch Appropriations Review
June 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Before the Senate version of the legislative branch appropriation gets officially publicly released on THOMAS this afternoon, (as discussed in PDF on the Senate Approps Cmte website, we should probably start to talk about the House version of the legislative branch subcommittee of appropriations, since they’re responsible for providing funding for the things we’re discussing. [...]
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