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2Day in #OpenGov 2/22/2012

Policy Fellow Matt Rumsey wrote this post. Here is the Wednesday’s look at transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency-related events. News Roundup: Campaign … [...]

Almost 400 former House staffers registered to lobby in last two years

The revolving door is alive and well in Washington. In less than three years, at least 378 House staffers employed in personal and committee offices have left Capitol Hill to become registered lobbyists, a Sunlight Foundation analysis of U.S. House di… [...]

2Day in #OpenGov 2/21/2012

Policy Fellow Matt Rumsey wrote this post. Here is the week’s first look at transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency-related events. News Roundup: Campaign… [...]

House Sets Document Naming Conventions for Online Publications

Today the House of Representatives promulgated standards on how to electronically name a broad range of legislative documents, from bills to amendments to committee reports to individual legislators. Combined with the recently launched transparency portal docs.house.gov, important legislative information can now be automatically and uniquely identified by computers and retrieved at permanent URLs, with more data to come online in 2013. The public release of these standards will help ensure that third parties have a common vocabulary to describe the same document, which will make data sharing much easier.

This is the latest in a series of steps by the House of Representatives to give the public better access to legislative information. The document was released by the Committee on House Administration, which is responsible for the promulgation of technology standards to make the House more open and transparent.

House of Representatives Document Naming Conventions v 1.2

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Sunlight Weekly Roundup: "What’s happening in the government should be public…"

According to open government advocates, Maryland does not do a good enough job of making government information easy for citizens to find online on the state’s website. Despite Governor Martin O’Malley’s stated commitment to increasing Mary… [...]

2Day in #OpenGov 2/17/2012

Policy Fellow Matt Rumsey wrote this post. Here is the week’s last look at transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency-related events. News Roundup: Campaign … [...]

2Day in #OpenGov 2/17/2012

Policy Fellow Matt Rumsey wrote this post. Here is the week’s last look at transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency-related events. News Roundup: Campaign … [...]

2Day in #OpenGov 2/17/2012

Policy Fellow Matt Rumsey wrote this post. Here is the week’s last look at transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency-related events. News Roundup: Campaign … [...]

2Day in #OpenGov 2/16/2012

Policy Fellow Matt Rumsey wrote this post. Here is the week’s first look at transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency-related events. News Roundup: Campaign… [...]

Improper payments are down, but there is still room to improve

Policy Fellow Matt Rumsey wrote this post.  Last Tuesday, a House Subcommittee held a hearing to discuss improper payments by the federal government. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Organization, Effi… [...]