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Information Today
September 27, 2012
Peggy Garvin |
Congress.gov Beta: An Early Look at a New THOMAS The Library of Congress noted that "the [current] system has been updated over the years, but [its] foundation can no longer support the capabilities that today's Internet users have come to expect, including access on mobile devices."   |
Information Today
March 19, 2012 |
MapLight's New Political Transparency Tool -- Topic Pages The new tool allows journalists and citizens to search for and track bills by issue area in the U.S. Congress and in the California and Wisconsin State Legislatures. |
Information Today
November 15, 2010
Peggy Garvin |
LISA: Real-time Monitoring of State Legislative Action Databases with legislative information and bill text from the fifty states are nothing new. What is significant about LISA is that it brings you the intelligence on legislative action in real-time whenever possible. |
Information Today
July 16, 2007
Barbara Quint |
Sunlight Foundation Adds LOUIS and Insanely Useful Websites for Congressional Observers Curious what your representatives are doing with your tax dollars? Ask LOUIS, the new search engine from the Sunlight Foundation. |
Information Today
April 30, 2012 |
Scout -- A New Free Alert System for Government Information Sunlight Labs introduced Scout, a free alert system for the things you care about in state and national government. It covers Congress, regulations across the whole executive branch, and legislation in all 50 states. |
Information Today
February 28, 2013
Barbie E. Keiser |
Big Data, Open Government, and Sunlight Open States is the latest in a collection of Big Data-open government analysis tools from Sunlight Foundation. |
Information Today
January 15, 2007 |
Library of Congress Unveils Beta of New THOMAS The Library of Congress has released a new beta version of THOMAS, its Web site that provides access to federal legislation and related documents. |
InternetNews
January 30, 2009
Kenneth Corbin |
Tapping the Constituency, Wiki-Style New collaborative writing tool aims to give noisy blogosphere a unified voice. Will the politicians listen? |
Information Today
August 27, 2013
Barbie E. Keiser |
Another Step Toward Transparency in Government The U.S. Code has been available online, but not always up-to-date, in an easily accessible format. With the release of an XML format, the public can expect developers to create apps to view and analyze legislative data in new and exciting ways. |
Information Today
September 9, 2010 |
Library of Congress Implements Third Major 2010 Enhancement for THOMAS Latest enhancements add a mobile-friendly homepage, integrate features from the Library of Congress and Law Library of Congress websites into THOMAS, and add a new portal to state legislature websites. |
Information Today
June 20, 2013
Barbie E. Keiser |
Co-Sponsor a Congressional Bill and Track Its Progress Cosponsor.gov is a sweeping expansion of the Citizen Cosponsor Project. The new website will now feature every bill and resolution introduced in the House, from Republicans and Democrats. |
Managed Care
June 2005
John Carroll |
New Legislative Efforts Put Onus on Employers States are considering laws that require businesses to provide coverage for their employees. Wal-Mart is the biggest target. |
Wired
Kristina Shevory |
Ellen Miller: Make Washington More Like the Web The ideal of transparency and participation hasn't yet infiltrated another messy democracy -- the US government. |
Wall Street & Technology
November 27, 2007
Melanie Rodier |
Identity Theft Top Priority for State Legislators More than 1,300 bills covering a range of issues that could impact financial institutions currently are pending before the 50 U.S. state legislatures. |
InternetNews
September 8, 2004
Roy Mark |
Time Running Out on Fed's Tech Agenda CAN-SPAM and nanotech funding aside, the tech industry has seen little legislative success in a Congress consumed with matters of war and national security. |
Salon.com
December 8, 2000
Dan Conley |
Revenge of the Democratic governors? If the Florida Legislature picks its electors, others states could follow suit -- and give the election to Al Gore... |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2002
Stapenhurst & Pelizzo |
A Bigger Role for Legislatures As elected representatives, legislatures should be involved in developing national poverty reduction strategies and overseeing their implementation. |
