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 [...]
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2001 Memo on Clerk and Public Disclosure
February 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: IG · OpenHouse · clerk of the house · lobbying · lobbying disclosure
Reading Notes on The Documentation of Congress
January 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments
After going through the trouble of obtaining and digitizing the 1992 report on congressional documentation, I’ve started going systematically through the document, and, in an attempt to read more closely, have been taking notes. This is a long post, but the parallels with the Open House Project are startling to me, as are the contrasts: [...]
Tags: CLA · Member Web Sites · NARA · OpenHouse · government websites · jurisdiction · legal research · library of congress · lobbying · lobbying disclosure · ota · preservation · senate · spub 102-20
CRS Tuesday: Lobbying, and Iraq
September 11th, 2007 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: CRS reports · OpenHouse · library of congress · lobbying · lobbying disclosure
Senate Legislative Branch Appropriations Review
August 23rd, 2007 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Congress · OpenHouse · appropriations · archive · archivist · committees · government websites · lobbying · lobbying disclosure · preservation
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