One of the Open House Project’s recommendations was that Congress share its legislative data with the public in bulk and I’ve had a long history of posts on the subject. Over at the Free Gov info blog (link), Bob Tapella, Public Printer at the Government Printing Office, tells us that they are responding to this [...]
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Update on bulk data from Congress
April 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Tags: GPO · bulk data download · clerk of the house · library of congress · senate
Bulk data downloads approved in the omnibus spending bill (success!)
March 11th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Two recommendations of our report have been moved forward in the FY09 omnibus appropriations bill (H.R. 1105) which cleared the Senate yesterday and the House last month. The first recommendation in our chapter on legislative databases was that the Library of Congress make its bill status database directly available to the public and that the [...]
Tags: Congress · GPO · Structured Data · appropriations · approps · clerk of the house · govtrack · legislation · library of congress · maplight · openhouseproject
2001 Memo on Clerk and Public Disclosure
February 1st, 2008 · No Comments
I just came across a memo from the House Inspector General to the Clerk of the House in 2001 (link). It reviews whether the Clerk has sufficiently implemented the requirements of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995, which the Clerk’s office had, for the most part.
The report provides a convenient description of some of [...]
Tags: IG · OpenHouse · clerk of the house · lobbying · lobbying disclosure
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