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Bring on the sunlight
The Washington DC Examiner Newspaper, The Examiner Feb 15, 2007 3:00 AM (1028 days ago)WASHINGTON Bad things like earmarks that waste tax dollars happen when Congress keeps too much of the public’s business out of the public eye. Members routinely vote on massive bills they’ve never read. Congressional committees vote on hundreds of arcane amendments but typically only panel members and interested lobbyists know what gets changed. Most information about how members manage their multimillion dollar offices and staffs, who they meet with, and how they spend their official time is protected by a pervasive “what happens here stays here” culture on Capitol Hill. The OpenHouse Project aims to change these bad habits.
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