http://www.theopenhouseproject.com Recommendations, Resources, and Reform Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:53:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/the-open-house-project-report/5-congressional-committees/comment-page-1/#comment-17424 Open House Project Retrospective | The Open House Project Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:03:31 +0000 http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/5-congressional-committees/#comment-17424 [...] (Report Chapter ) [...] [...] (Report Chapter ) [...]

]]> http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/the-open-house-project-report/5-congressional-committees/comment-page-1/#comment-6460 CREW Calls for Committee Vote Publication | The Open House Project Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:18:25 +0000 http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/5-congressional-committees/#comment-6460 [...] Sunlight Foundation is among the signatories, not surprising given the committee chapter of the Open House Project report (or other similar attempts to give guidance to [...] [...] Sunlight Foundation is among the signatories, not surprising given the committee chapter of the Open House Project report (or other similar attempts to give guidance to [...]

]]> http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/the-open-house-project-report/5-congressional-committees/comment-page-1/#comment-6358 Committee Information List | The Open House Project Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:22:08 +0000 http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/5-congressional-committees/#comment-6358 [...] committee chapter of the Open House Project has a number of recommendations, which we’ve added to in the 11 [...] [...] committee chapter of the Open House Project has a number of recommendations, which we’ve added to in the 11 [...]

]]> http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/the-open-house-project-report/5-congressional-committees/comment-page-1/#comment-4603 S1 Implementation in the Senate Finance Committee | The Open House Project Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:03:24 +0000 http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/5-congressional-committees/#comment-4603 [...] This disclosure, as outlined in the Open House Project report (committee section), must first be timely.  Committee staff have expressed real concerns about posting official transcripts in time, and one solution to that concern may be to post unofficial versions of transcripts first.  In any case, making public access a priority should enable best practices to quickly emerge, and I’m confident in the committees ability to post proceedings quickly.  Senator Salazar was confident of this fact as well, as he remarked when introducing the amendment to the Senate bill: “I should also add that the amendment will create no serious burden for the committtees”. (link) [...] [...] This disclosure, as outlined in the Open House Project report (committee section), must first be timely.  Committee staff have expressed real concerns about posting official transcripts in time, and one solution to that concern may be to post unofficial versions of transcripts first.  In any case, making public access a priority should enable best practices to quickly emerge, and I’m confident in the committees ability to post proceedings quickly.  Senator Salazar was confident of this fact as well, as he remarked when introducing the amendment to the Senate bill: “I should also add that the amendment will create no serious burden for the committtees”. (link) [...]

]]> http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/the-open-house-project-report/5-congressional-committees/comment-page-1/#comment-2787 Large Update | The Open House Project Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:06:17 +0000 http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/5-congressional-committees/#comment-2787 [...] Even if the leadership in both parties make a priority of publicizing committee proceedings, the committee chairs in their variable discretion (as we called it in the report) still need to make it a sufficient priority for it to happen.  To encourage them to do so, we’ve drafted a letter, working closely with VoterWatch (and Perla Ni) to articulate what we are looking for–accurate, timely records of what happens in public hearings, posted online permanently in text, audio, and video. [...] [...] Even if the leadership in both parties make a priority of publicizing committee proceedings, the committee chairs in their variable discretion (as we called it in the report) still need to make it a sufficient priority for it to happen.  To encourage them to do so, we’ve drafted a letter, working closely with VoterWatch (and Perla Ni) to articulate what we are looking for–accurate, timely records of what happens in public hearings, posted online permanently in text, audio, and video. [...]

]]> http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/the-open-house-project-report/5-congressional-committees/comment-page-1/#comment-72 An RSS Standard for Committee Hearings | The Open House Project Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:00:30 +0000 http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/5-congressional-committees/#comment-72 [...] The committee section of the Open House Project report made several specific suggestions about how to make information from congressional committees more publicly accessible and useful. One of the basic steps we recommended was to use RSS feeds to announce committee meetings. We have created a template for announcing committee hearings with structured data. (This is an xml file, if you’d like to see what it looks like, check out below.) [...] [...] The committee section of the Open House Project report made several specific suggestions about how to make information from congressional committees more publicly accessible and useful. One of the basic steps we recommended was to use RSS feeds to announce committee meetings. We have created a template for announcing committee hearings with structured data. (This is an xml file, if you’d like to see what it looks like, check out below.) [...]

]]> http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/the-open-house-project-report/5-congressional-committees/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Op-Ed in The Hill | The Open House Project Tue, 22 May 2007 14:40:01 +0000 http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/5-congressional-committees/#comment-50 [...] The Hill published today the next installment in the series on The Open House Project. Today’s Op-Ed is on committee websites, and discusses the content from the committees chapter of our report. [...] [...] The Hill published today the next installment in the series on The Open House Project. Today’s Op-Ed is on committee websites, and discusses the content from the committees chapter of our report. [...]

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