<p>Senator Dick Durbin is <a href="http://openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=318">crafting a bill online</a> this week on universal broadband policy. I don&#39;t know if this effort is a first of its kind but I think it might well be.</p>    <blockquote><p>Today I&#39;m writing to invite you to participate in an experiment -- an interactive approach to drafting legislation on one of the most significant public policy questions today: What should be America&#39;s national broadband strategy? . . . There are two reasons I&#39;m asking for your help and participation.  The first is because I think we need more public participation and transparency in the way Congress crafts significant legislation.  This is an approach to legislation that has never been tried before.  If it&#39;s successful -- as I believe it will be -- it may become the way lawmakers approach drafting bills on other issues like education, health care, and foreign policy.</p></blockquote>    <p>Now this is lawmaking in the sunlight!