They can be. They've been able to be for a decade or so. They aren't. Some of that is budgetary, but a lot of it is that a lot of politicians don't actually ha

They can be. They've been able to be for a decade or so. They aren't. Some of that is budgetary, but a lot of it is that a lot of politicians don't actually have an interest in being held accountable, so you need someone to go down there and do it. Besides, how many people are going to read a full meeting transcript every month? Very few, and typically only those motivated and thus biased by what's going on. You need a summary for a broad audience and you certainly can't trust those running the meetings to make one.