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 […]
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S1 Implementation in the Senate Finance Committee
January 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: CLA · House of Representatives · Open Senate Project · OpenHouse · committees · government websites · transcripts
Encouraging Access to Committees
November 16th, 2007 · No Comments
To encourage Congress to grant access to committee hearings, we’ve prepared this letter.
I’m hoping that we can demonstrate some enthusiasm for what happens in committee hearings, since they’re so essential to the legislative process, literally determining the content of our laws and the extent of Congress’s oversight. To that end, I’ve also prepared a brief […]
Tags: Congress · OpenHouse · committees · transcripts
Transcript Analysis; Delicious Links
November 4th, 2007 · 4 Comments
One theme running through what we’re doing here, in my mind at least, is to blur the line between the explicit and the implicit, or, put differently, to make evident those things which were only implied. Effective data availability is certainly a case of this. Every time there is government information that is […]
Tags: Congress · OpenHouse · communication · data visualization · government websites · transcripts
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