Many people remember from middle school the movie on how a bill becomes a law, but few civics courses teach about what happens afterward. On Monday, John, Josh, and I sat down with members of the Office of the Law Revision Counsel. Their job, in short, is to consolidate and codify laws passed by Congress [...]
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What happens after a bill becomes a law
May 14th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Congress · legal research · legalresearch · legislation
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
Disclosure Legislation from Senate Judiciary
March 7th, 2008 · No Comments
A flurry of new disclosure related legislation from the Senate Judiciary Committee:
The Sunshine in Litigation Act requires that judges consider public health in deciding whether to release the results of litigation.
The bipartisan “Sunshine in Litigation Act� was prompted by dozens of cases in which hazards and threats to public health were not disclosed during court [...]
Tags: OpenHouse · disclosure · legislation · senate
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