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S1 Implementation in the Senate Finance Committee

January 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Over the last few days, there’s been a good deal of talk about the ethics requirements going into effect for Senate Committees.  Later today, the Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to reconcile the rules of their committee with the requirements of the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act, often referred informally as “the ethics reform [...]

Tags: CLA · House of Representatives · Open Senate Project · OpenHouse · committees · government websites · transcripts

Governmental Support Entities with a Role in Transparency: Statutory Basis for Negotiated Terrain

January 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

In order to clarify this post, I wanted to organize some of the governmental support agencies and bodies with responsibility or jurisdiction over congressional information access.  This list is still probably partial, as any such list would be, since jurisdiction and responsibility are ultimately a matter of habit and practice as much as they are [...]

Tags: House of Representatives · Open Senate Project · OpenHouse · jurisdiction · library of congress · ota · senate