Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
. . . or does he? Friday afternoon, the White House blog announced that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was posted online for public comment. This is good evidence that the President intends to honor his campaign promise to post legislation online and take public comment for five days before signing it. [...]
Here’s Paul Blumenthal of the Sunlight Foundation on the closed process being used to ram through the deficit-spending/economic stimulus bill: [I]t is not just Republicans who are being denied access to the bill. Reporters, bloggers, and the general public are being denied an opportunity to review one of the most important pieces of legislation sent [...]
. . . with calls to televise the conference committee on the economic stimulus bill. A good idea, with reservations which I discuss on the WashingtonWatch.com blog.
My legislative tracking project/site has welcomed 1,000,000 visitors so far this year, a nice threshold to cross. Oh, and the Senate economic stimulus bill amounts to about $750 per U.S. family in spending.
February 14, 2012
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