“I want to see a stimulus package sooner rather than later. If it does not get done in the lame duck session, it will be the first thing I get done as President of the United States.”
So said President-Elect Barack Obama at his first press conference this past week.
Will subsidies for broadband be part [...]
One of the keys to WashingtonWatch.com is good data about federal legislation. A reason why WashingtonWatch.com is not a much better resource is because it’s very hard to get good data out of the legislative branch.
So it’s nice to see that a new Open Senate Project is joining the Open House Project. These [...]
A commenter on S. 3001, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009, which passed the House yesterday, pointed out a large discrepancy between the cost figures reported here on WashingtonWatch.com and on a worthy similar site, GovTrack.
The GovTrack page on S. 3001 recites costs of $23 per American. (The commenter actually reported [...]
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A couple of months ago, I signed up for a WashingtonWatch.com Twitter account. Twitter is a micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (also known as “tweets”), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters [...]
Tyson Chaney at Politics 2000 recently interviewed me about WashingtonWatch.com and posted the results on his blog. It provides a decent amount of insight into what we’re trying to do here, so I recommend giving it a read.
And I note with a mixture of joy and consternation that the recent post here on Fannie [...]
Though Congress is away for the month, the Congressional Budget Office is not. CBO is the source for most of the cost estimates we use to report the cost (and occasionally savings) of legislation, and it continues its work even during the dog days of summer (- which haven’t been all that bad this [...]
Just a quick note to tell you about an exciting update to our site. Well, actually it’s not all that exciting, but anyway . . .
A few months ago, we found that some visitors were leaving comments that were very long - such as copies of entire news articles. These probably aren’t terribly [...]
The Senate has been debating H.R. 3221, The Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008 this week, and modernization of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is a part of that legislation. But I want to point out a different FHA bill that has been very active here on WashingtonWatch.com.
The bill page for S. 2338, the FHA [...]
To my pleasant surprise, an earlier post on the Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite Act brought a lot of response across the blogosphere. You can see some trackbacks on the post. And along with skepticism about the bill, several commenters spoke up to defend it. Who would have know that it [...]
One of the pleasures of running a site like WashingtonWatch.com is seeing where the information we produce travels on the Web, and all the communities that use it. A current example is this story on DSNews.com.
What is DSNews.com you ask? Well, it’s the “premier and most up-to-date news source for professionals working in the evolving [...]
