As Donny has been reporting, the House today is scheduled to vote on the Waxman-Markey climate change bill, a sweeping piece of legislation that will establish a program to cap emissions of pollutants and a system for trading emission permits. I won’t go into too much detail for two reasons: for starters, Donny has covered [...]

Regular OpenCongress users know that we lag a bit (about 24 hours) behind THOMAS, the official site of the Library of Congress, when we put bill information and roll call votes on OpenCongress. This is a result of several factors, but put simply, we have to wait for the information to be online before our [...]

One of the most frustrating things I encountered as a small-town reporter was a lack of access to information: whether I was trying to find out about laws in the Roundhouse or enrollment rates at WNMU, sometimes I ran into brick walls and red tape. I now work for the Sunlight Foundation and OpenCongress, two [...]

If you’re interested in government information, and you have a knack for programming or visualizing information and like money (and who doesn’t like money) should check out Sunlight Labs new contest: Apps for America 2. Sunlight is giving away $25,000 in prize money (in conjunction with a few partners like Google) to the best applications [...]

“Journalists who also blog shouldn’t criticize me because I’m right and they’re wrong. So go look at all the crazy stuff they’re trying to pull.” Or something like that (scroll down to the bottom). Oh, and to his assertion that his is “the most respected, most quoted and most read political web site in New [...]

So, I’m still trying to find the time to get blogging over here going once again, but for now you can read my latest over at OpenCongress: Last year, the DREAM Act fell eight votes short of cloture in the Senate (see Donny’s detailed post for more). As with several other pieces of legislation in [...]

I’ve got my first blog post up at OpenCongress.org, where today I begin my new role as community manager. It’s a quick preview of the legislative week: The Senate kicks off the week with a busy start, as Democratic leaders attempt to keep the caucus in line on the omnibus spending bill. In the House, [...]