I had the pleasure this morning of speaking at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, for a panel on Innovative Advocacy (cohosted by Adfero).
While much of the discussion centered on best practices and ideas around (what seemed to me to be) more traditional advocacy, I tried to add some of my thoughts on what might make [...]

Here’s a CRS report on e-rulemaking, outlining legislation and implementation of e-rulemaking, especially as it relates to the relationship between the legislative and executive branch.
For a little more detail on the foundations of that relationship in terms of oversight, here are two recent CRS reports on Inspectors General, one about the offices’ history and statutory [...]

In light of the current debate over SCHIP (and President Bush’s veto threat), here are two recently released CRS reports on the State Childrens’ Health Insurance Program legislation.
This report, released August 14th, is specifically about H.R. 3162.
The other document is a CRS report from August 7th on Medicaid, SCHIP, and FY2008 issues.
Documents from OpenCRS.com, as [...]

Two particularly relevant new CRS reports this week:
First, a report summarizing lobbying reform measures:
Significant changes were made by Congress to the current lobbying laws, and to internal House and Senate rules on ethics and procedures, by the passage of S. 1, 110th Congress, and the adoption of H.Res. 6, 110th Congress. In the face of [...]

Last night I read the entire CRS report that I posted yesterday, Congress and the Internet: Highlights. There were several things about that report that got me excited, including a beautifully rendered history of Congress adapting to new technology. I’ll write more about that in a bit, since the detail that most caught [...]

This Tuesday I’m looking at two CRS reports about Congress, Information Technology, and the Internet.
First is a new report called Congress and the Internet: Highlights, which is a great overview of technology in Congress, and also of a sort of administrative view of technological transformation and its likely effects on policy. It ends with [...]

Just a quick post to point out that I just found a Congressional Research Service Report on the Legislative Branch Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2008.
Provided by Open CRS.

Many of us saw the outburst recently on CNBC by outspoken financial analyst/entertainer Jim Cramer:

Most people probably have at least a solid idea of the financial mechanisms he’s imploring Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to control. For a reliable and accessible review of some basic governmental controls of financial markets, the best source, as [...]