The legislative process could become a lot more exciting if lawmakers get their way in freeing the data inside the Library of Congress' legislative Internet database so that independent Web sites can repackage the information.
Washington - When the Sunlight Foundation, an organization here that uses Web technology to expose the workings of Congress, decided it wanted to know how many members of the House of Representatives had used campaign money to hire their spouses, it turned to its phalanx of researchers - the American public.
WASHINGTON - Nothing but old news will be made next week at the University of Oklahoma when remnants of the last century's New Deal model politics gather to crown themselves with the mantle of an independent third force in the 2008 presidential campaign.