The Senate Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill (reported out of committee on June 21st) provides a revealing look into the priorities that Congress sets in funding its own operations. The House and Senate pass separate appropriations bills; this page on THOMAS organizes the appropriations bills for each fiscal year in a remarkably useful manner.
While the [...]
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Senate Legislative Branch Appropriations Review
August 23rd, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Congress · OpenHouse · appropriations · archive · archivist · committees · government websites · lobbying · lobbying disclosure · preservation
Carl Malamud Strikes Again
August 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment
From O’Reilly Radar on Sunday and the New York Times, it looks like Carl Malamud’s been busy, this time working to get legal decisions released into the public domain. As Tim O’Reilly notes, Carl has a great track record in asserting the public-nature of public information, by digitizing large amounts of information normally accessed under [...]
Tags: OpenHouse · committees · congressional video · intellectual property
Insanely Useful Sites: GovTrack.us
August 9th, 2007 · No Comments
GovTrack.us is a perfect choice to be our first review as an Insanely Useful Website. GovTrack is one of the original web 2.0 type sources for government information: both an excellent example of a new model of political information distribution, and a compelling story of Web-programming genius expressed as an ambitious civic undertaking.
Josh Tauberer, [...]
Tags: Congress · House of Representatives · OpenHouse · RSS · Structured Data · committees · government websites · govtrack · insanely useful websites · web 2.0
S. 1: Revised Ethics Reform Bill
August 1st, 2007 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Congress · House of Representatives · OpenHouse · appropriations · committees
Congressional video from the trenches
July 18th, 2007 · No Comments
While much of our report was written by people that, at least currently, are in the game of spreading information in an issue-neutral way — that is, information for the sake of information — it’s always nice to hear that those that are in the game of policy come to (at least some of) the [...]
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