Tag Archive: House

Member Expenses Continued

by Paul Blumenthal Jun 5, 2009 10:51 am

Earlier this week, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that lawmaker office expenses would be placed online at the earliest possible time.... View Article

Web-Use Reform Happy Ending

by John Wonderlich Oct 3, 2008 5:57 pm

(Cross-Posted from the Open House Project) Yesterday, after months of negotiations and proposals, the House joined the Senate in updating... View Article

Following @johnculberson

by Ellen Miller Jun 11, 2008 6:08 pm

Rep. John Culberson is member of Congress who understands what’s happening on the Web today. He’s a congressman who is... View Article

House, Senate Agree on Federal Spending Database; Bill Must Still Pass House

by Bill Allison Sep 8, 2006 4:31 pm

The House and Senate have agreed on a version of S. 2590, the Coburn-Obama database bill. The press release indicates that the publicly available database that the legislation will create will include both federal contracts and grants (an earlier House bill, Blunt-Davis, would have disclosed grants but not contracts). The bill still has to pass the House, but it looks like it's moving forward. Here's the release:

WASHINGTON---House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.), U.S. Senators Tom Coburn (Okla.), Barack Obama (Ill.), and Tom Carper (Del.), and Government Reform Chairman Tom Davis (Va.) today announced that they have reached agreement on legislation to increase accountability and transparency by establishing a public database to track federal grants and contracts.
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