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Navigating legislation (after the fact, of course)

August 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

In May, the Congress passed the 2008 Farm Bill, which regulates various food, nutrition, and apparently biofuel issues. Tufts food policy professor Parke Wilde writes on his blog today:
The 629-page text (.pdf) of the 2008 Farm Bill is so complex and unreadable that the U.S. food policy community has been on the edge of our [...]

Tags: Legislation 2.0 · government websites

Legislation 2.0 at Open Left

July 24th, 2007 · 1 Comment

When David All and I wrote in an Op-Ed for The Hill that “the time has come to re-imagine the world of the wired elected official,� I did not expect members of Congress to be so quick to pick up and use these new lines of communication. Halfway into the year more members of Congress [...]

Tags: Dick Durbin · Legislation 2.0 · Open Left · OpenHouse · web 2.0