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Entries Tagged as 'procedure'

Procedural Uncertainty & Normalization

January 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I always find it interesting how although our government is run by fairly strict procedural rules that have been written out in various places, starting with the constitution and ending somewhere past the horizon, sometimes it’s just impossible to locate exactly at what point in the procedural game “reality” is. For instance, the constitution outlines […]

Tags: House of Representatives · OpenHouse · Structured Data · executive · govtrack · jurisdiction · library of congress · procedure

Steve King introduces a new bill with a bit of Internet-transparency thrown in

October 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Steve King, a Republican from Iowa, has introduced a new bill that has a clause specifically about Internet-based transparency. (We know King from his bill H.R. 170: Sunlight Act of 2007, parts of which I think were integrated into the passed ethics reform bill. One part that wasn’t integrated was a provision to have bills […]

Tags: Congress · House of Representatives · OpenHouse · appropriations · procedure