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 Actâ€? was prompted by dozens of cases in which hazards and threats to public health were not disclosed during court […]

From the always-worthwhile Information Aesthetics blog, links to an amazingly detailed visualization of ideological distribution in the US Senate throughout history.  From the description offered there:
This visualization rewards careful inspection–there are stories to be found everywhere: follow the positions of the Presidents, relative to their own party members; note how party leaders are typically close […]

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: […]

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 […]