Bill Amendments go Mainstream?
Liam Chambers, December 8, 2009 · Comments Off
For those of us who are interested in the legislative process bill amendments are part of the lifeblood of democracy a who did what, proposed what, and what happened process. The process is not always visible outside the legislature, so I was interested to see today that Slate Magazine is now tracking every amendment to the US Senate’s health care reform bill.
According to Slate “they are presented (here) with sponsors’ names, plain-English descriptions, links to texts and summaries, and roll call votes, with the most recent at the top.”
Its nice to see the process out in the open and the information getting disseminated. Shame its all PDF, some amendment RSS would be nice but its a step in the right direction