Seventeen years after the creation of THOMAS, Congress today launched a sleeker, more intuitive and user-friendly legislative information website, beta.congress.gov.... View Article
Continue readingLooking for the “Constitution Annotated” on Constitution Day
It’s been 225 years since the signing of the U.S. Constitution in September 1787, so the three years that have... View Article
Continue readingLooking Forward to the THOMAS Beta Website
In the near future, Congress is expected to release a major upgrade to its aging legislative information website THOMAS. The... View Article
Continue readingHow to #FreeTHOMAS: A report on implementing bulk access
Today we are pleased to release a report on improving public access to legislative information. The report (PDF, DOC, ODT) is the result of a collaborative effort that was prompted by the House Leadership's recent statement endorsing bulk access and the questions raised in a committee report accompanying the House Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill.
Continue reading39% of Office of Legal Counsel Opinions Kept from the Public
by Daniel Schuman and Adeeb Sahar The Department of Justice is withholding from online publication 39% (or 201) of its... View Article
Continue readingSunlight, Non-Profits File Pro-Disclosure Brief in Van Hollen v. FEC
This afternoon the Sunlight Foundation, joined by 8 other non-profits, filed an amicus brief supporting disclosing financial disbursements made by entities... View Article
Continue readingLaw Libraries, Government Transparency, and the Internet
This past weekend I was fortunate to attend the American Association of Law Libraries 105th annual conference. On Sunday morning,... View Article
Continue readingAgency Report Transparency Bill Delayed For Technical Fixes
Markup of a bill to make agency reports to Congress transparent did not occur as planned on Thursday after the measure... View Article
Continue readingFederal Spending Transparency Gets a Hearing, Not a Markup
Improved federal spending transparency was the topic of today’s Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing, which focused on the... View Article
Continue readingAgency Report Transparency Bill Set for Markup Tomorrow
Tomorrow the Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act will get its turn in the spotlight. The legislation, which would require reports... View Article
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