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For those keeping an eye on whether the House will restrict bulk access to THOMAS legislative data, amendments to the... View Article
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News Without Transparency- Albany Lobbying is Recession Proof Lobbying is big business in New York. Earlier this year, the Legislative... View Article
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NEWS ROUNDUP Government Open source incubator moves on: Since 2008, NASA has helped develop several open source cloud services projects. Now... View Article
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In the last 24 hours there have been three significant developments on providing the public with better access to legislative... View Article
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NEWS ROUNDUP Campaign Finance Roemer out, but not down: Buddy Roemer, the former Governor of Louisiana and campaign finance reform champion,... View Article
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