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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.   |
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A Political Comment on ... The Life of a Bill A brief primer on bills originating in the Senate using S. 1321, the Energy Savings Act of 2007, a bill that the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources recently proposed. |
Information Today
February 13, 2014 |
GPO Releases XML-Formatted Bill Summaries The U.S. Government Printing Office teamed up with the Library of Congress to provide bill summaries from the U.S. House of Representatives available for downloading in XML format. |
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April 2008
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Passing Bad Laws A short guided tour -- by a congressman -- of the worst bills currently in Congress. |
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." |
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. |
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. |
Searcher
March 2007
Mary Alice Baish |
Librarians as Change Agents: How You Can Help Influence Public Policy in the 110th Congress Key library issues for the 110th Congress. |
The Motley Fool
December 9, 2011
Rich Smith |
Ambush on Capitol Hill! The STOCK Act is in danger. |
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. |
InternetNews
February 9, 2007
Roy Mark |
House Delivers Package of Privacy Bills Members of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee introduced a package of bills Thursday evening aimed at identity theft, pretexting, data security and breach notifications. |
CRM
July 2012
Judith Aquino |
Listening to the Voice of the Constituent A snapshot of the ways government agencies are using CRM strategies and technology today. |
InternetNews
December 26, 2006
Roy Mark |
New Leaders, Old Issues What's Next in Tech: Democratic lawmakers may put a new emphasis on network neutrality and data-privacy issues in 2007. |
InternetNews
January 19, 2011 |
Reid to Renew Senate Cybersecurity Push Senate majority leader looks to merge competing committee bills to arrive at reform legislation this year, still waiting for the White House to weigh in. |
The Motley Fool
December 15, 2011 |
Take Action: Let's Hold House Majority Leader Eric Cantor Accountable It's time to stop insider trading on Capitol Hill. |
Information Today
February 17, 2009
Miriam A. Drake |
GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys) Goes Live The U.S. Government Printing Office hit the on switch in early February and brought up its new digital system, FDsys, for access to government information. T |
PC World
February 20, 2001
Jennifer O'Neill |
Congress Navigates a Flood of Net Privacy Bills Lawmakers, industry juggle e-commerce and consumer concerns in review of longtime (and new) proposals... |
InternetNews
January 4, 2007
Roy Mark |
Dems Go Virtual to Promote New Agenda Second Life press conference promotes network neutrality and online posting of bills before votes. |
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
January 27, 2011
Peggy Garvin |
OpenGovernment.org Beta for State Legislative Data Along with a cooperative network of civic hackers, the non-profit Participatory Politics Foundation has launched OpenGovernment.org, a beta site for searching state legislative data. |
Investment Advisor
February 1, 2011
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Ryan Reveals GOP Budget Agenda to Investment Advisor New House Budget Committee Chair says Dodd-Frank, health care, spending all in play. |
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November 9, 2006
Roy Mark |
Lame Ducks Limp Back to Congress With a major power shift coming in January, Republican-led House and Senate return for mop-up session. |
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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
January 5, 2011 |
Boehner Taps Facebook, Web in New Congress At the dawn of the 112th Congress, Speaker-Elect John Boehner plans to stream opening session on Facebook, reinvigorate efforts to engage with public online. |
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
March 25, 2010 |
Controversial Healthcare Reform Bill and Debate Now Available on GPO's Federal Digital System The U.S. Government Printing Office has made the healthcare reform bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives available in electronic form. |
InternetNews
November 10, 2006
Roy Mark |
Will Dems Change Tech Policy? One-party rule in Washington ends next year when the 110th Congress convenes with Democrats taking over the House and the Senate. What does this mean for technology policy? |
BusinessWeek
November 3, 2010
Paul M. Barrett et al. |
Republicans Win a Big Redistricting Edge Big state-level gains mean GOP dominance in redrawing congressional districts. |
Geotimes
August 2004
Emily Lehr Wallace |
Budget Procrastination If the average American were aware enough of the budget process to be outraged by this governance via procrastination, perhaps the Congress would get the message and perform one of their central duties in an efficient and timely manner. |
CIO
March 25, 2011
Grant Gross |
Does Obama Really Have an Internet Kill Switch? Cybersecurity may be top of mind for Congress this year, but the whole `kill switch' thing is overblown and there's much more on the table. |
Wired
November 2000
David Corn |
Filegate.gov The biggest Congressional scandal of the digital age: Politicians aren't putting public docs on the Net, and no one seems to care... |
BusinessWeek
April 29, 2010
James Warren |
Why the Senate Is Sitting on 309 Bills The "hold" is a tactic so juvenile that it isn't even in the Senate rules. Yet it's never been more common, and it's keeping important legislation at bay |
ifeminists
January 11, 2009
Wendy McElroy |
Comparable Worth: Feminism Turning to Paternalism The House will likely vote this week on two pay-discrimination bills that were passed by the last Congress but stopped in the Senate by Republican-led filibusters. |
BusinessWeek
October 22, 2009 |
Two Ways to Fund Reform Separate House and Senate health-care bills cover costs differently. |
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. |
Information Today
April 7, 2011 |
GSA and GPO Partner With Google to Offer Free Government Publications The program is making available 100 consumer-related Federal Government publications distributed through GSA's Federal Citizen Information Center on Google Books. |
Geotimes
May 2004
Kendy & Vranes |
Breaking Down the Barriers: A Two-Part Series, Part II Part two in a series on how to effectively lobby your members of Congress. |
Investment Advisor
November 2009
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Danger & Opportunity: Healthcare, Financial Services Reform Making Headway Two of the Obama Administration's top priorities to accomplish by year-end -- healthcare and financial services reform -- are well on their way to fruition. |
The Motley Fool
February 9, 2010
Brian Orelli |
What Bipartisan Health-Care Reform Means for Investors Republicans and Democrats will debate on TV, but little may come of it. |
Information Today
May 16, 2011
Barbie E. Keiser |
Public Printer Goes to the Hill -- GPO at a Crossroads Rep. Charles Gonzales (D-Texas) entered into the record the testimony of Suzanne Sears, assistant dean of public services University Libraries, University of North Texas, on the value of print documents to professional researchers and archivists. |
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Argentine Court Forgives Crude Forgery An Argentine man who tried to use two counterfeit bills has been found innocent, by reason of incompetence. |
The Motley Fool
January 16, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
A Tax Credit for All of Us More information about the federal excise tax: By opting to do the legwork, you'll likely end up with a bigger refund. |
BusinessWeek
July 2, 2009
Sasse & Weems |
Health-Care Reform: The Rush to Pass a Bad Bill The proposed laws making their way through Congress fail to answer hard, real-life questions about cost and care |
Investment Advisor
November 19, 2010
Melanie Waddell |
GOP House Will Attempt to Rein in Health Care, Dodd-Frank Republicans will urge SEC, other regulators, to 'go easy' in interpreting Dodd-Frank |
Information Today
December 9, 2002
Miriam A. Drake |
Government Printing Tug of War Continues The Office of Management and Budget issued a memorandum on May 3, 2002 that directed executive agencies to contract directly with private firms for printing their documents. Things have gotten even more complicated since then in a bitter spate of infighting. |
Inc.
June 2004
Darren Dahl |
States Target Outsourcing Several states hope legislative efforts will help curb a trend toward outsourcing to companies overseas. |
