3 legislative developments

[Daniel Schuman]

* The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee gives the DATA Act the nod... http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/05/24/data-act-from-ogr-to-hsgac-or-how-i-learned-to-love-the-budget-and-you-can-too/

* The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee pushes ACMRA (access to reports to congress) its seal of approval http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/

* The Committee on House Administration expresses its support for free access to legislative information, pushing back at a flawed NAPA report http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/05/23/committee-on-house-administration-supports-publics-right-to-govt-docs/

Daniel

Daniel Schuman
Director | Advisory Committee on Transparency
Policy Counsel | The Sunlight Foundation
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[Soren Dayton]

Is there any comparable progress in the Senate?

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[Daniel Schuman]

Soren,

The DATA Act was reintroduced just about the same time (and with very similar language) by Senators Warner and Portman, so it seems on track. Question is when it will get a hearing before HSGAC and whether there are any committee concerns.

ACMRA hopefully will be reintroduced soon. The problem was never with support from Senators, but whether S. Rules would hold a markup. AFAICT, markups are incredibly rare-- outside of the budget, they had 2 markups in the 112th. If they will have a markup, or give approval in some other way, it should sail through.

Daniel

Daniel Schuman
Director | Advisory Committee on Transparency
Policy Counsel | The Sunlight Foundation
o: 202-742-1520 x 273 | c: 202-713-5795 | @danielschuman

[Josh Tauberer]

Congrats to you, and Hudson, and everyone that's been working on those bills.

- Josh Tauberer (@JoshData)

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