Time to Reform the House Rules

Improving the House’s rules is the focus of a new letter and white paper released today. It’s no secret…

A subset of current CRS reports was published online by the Library of Congress on Tuesday. While federal law mandated the Library publish by September 18 any non-confidential final written work product of CRS…

The Decline of Private Laws

This article was written by Melanie Buck and published by the Sunlight Foundation on December 1, 2010.

The rules for the people writing the rules can seem like a black box, and that’s because to an extent they are. Demand Progress has voiced concerns for years that House Republicans are the only conference publishing their rules online (they also post their proposed changes to rules so extra…