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Congressional Hackathon 7.0: Coding, Collaboration, & Culture Change(firstbranchforecast.substack.com)
1 points by dschuma 1y ago|1 comments
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by dschuma 1y ago
Congress held a hackathon on Constitution Day, Sept. 17th, at the U.S. Capitol. It's a rare, bipartisan tradition and they shipped code.
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by dschuma 1y ago
Okay, folks, it's time to stop freaking out. First, this is a link to the Constitution Annotated, a legal treatise that explains the Constitution and its written by the Congressional Research Service, a division inside the Library of C
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Congress Asks for Ideas on Drafting Legislation with the Public(congressionaldata.org)
2 points by dschuma 2y ago|0 comments
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by dschuma 3y ago
Because the rules of the chambers are not designed to be neutral, they're designed to advance the goals of whoever has written them. In the House, it's leadership. In the Senate, it's to protect the powers of each individual
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by dschuma 3y ago
I think you are missing the connection between the rules and the maintenance of power -- both the chamber rules and the caucus/conference rules and arguing there's a disjunction in my and Surdy's vies on power. Let's sta
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by dschuma 3y ago
I'm one of the people quoted in the article and most of the others quoted are my peers. A bunch of us have worked on Capitol Hill as staff; several of us worked for Congress's think tank; others have written books on Congress. I s
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by dschuma 10y ago
Alas, no. This is a civil society effort.
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by dschuma 10y ago
Hey! The best thing to do is tell your members of Congress to support the Equal Access to CRS Reports Act. In the House of Representatives it's HR 4702 and in the Senate it's S 2639. The more they hear from you, the more likely th
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Hacking Congress' Rules for Privacy and Security [pdf](s3.amazonaws.com)
1 points by dschuma 10y ago|0 comments