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: […]
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Reading Notes on The Documentation of Congress
January 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: CLA · Member Web Sites · NARA · OpenHouse · government websites · jurisdiction · legal research · library of congress · lobbying · lobbying disclosure · ota · preservation · senate · spub 102-20
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
OTA Update
January 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment
As we’re looking through the reforms of the last year, I realized that the Office of Technology Assessment provision was recently passed in the consolidated omnibus appropriations bill. We pushed for the OTA’s reinstatement, and previously wrote about its impending passage.
Here’s the current relevant text, from govtrack, of HR 2764, the “Consolidated Appropriations Act […]
Tags: OpenHouse · openhouseproject · ota
OTA comment, US CTO
December 9th, 2007 · No Comments
From a response I just wrote to a comment on a Lessig blog post about dreaming up a US CTO position:
The OTA was recently reinstated, although in a different form, when Congress passed (and President Bush signed) the most recent legislative branch appropriations bill. I work for the Sunlight Foundation, and we helped push […]
Tags: CTO · OpenHouse · executive · jurisdiction · lessig · ota
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