Little bit of devil's advocate and a little bit of wrapping my head around the issue. provision requiring reports that agencies are required to send to the app

Little bit of devil's advocate and a little bit of wrapping my head around the issue. provision requiring reports that agencies are required to send to the appropriations panels be made available to other lawmakers and to the public. This provision doesn't seem to require that potential bills be posted online but that all reports be put online. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to assume that if someone wants to write a report with a controversial but accurate conclusion, they might decide not to if its going to be public. Unfortunately, privacy is often necessary for honesty. I think this is an issue that transcends party affiliations I agree. Edit: However, for HN, I hope we can keep party politics out of this. you're either in favor of transparency or you're in favor of backroom deal-cutting. I'd agree with this to some degree if the provision said something like "any bills that are proposed to be voted on and all ammendments, etc... should be posted online." In any event, I'm not convinced that anyhthing will change the way laws are made. If the rule is "anything official needs to be posted online" then more will go through unofficial channels and we'll still be in the dark. That being said, I wish I had a better way to truly increase transparency.