Here’s a very nice example of an advocate using the wiki function to make his or her case about a bill.
H.R. 1676, the PACT Act, would prevent tobacco smuggling and ensure the collection of all tobacco taxes, according to its authors.
But a WashingtonWatch.com user points out in the wiki article for the bill, “Honest, law-abiding [...]
People have looked more than 1,000 times at the wiki article about H.R. 1475, the Federal Prison Work Incentive Act of 2009.
If you know a little more about the bill than the average person, and you want others to know what you know, you should be editing that wiki article. Here’s how.
An enthusiastic welcome to everyone visiting H.R. 1475, the Federal Prison Work Incentive Act of 2009 this week.
By your numbers, you have toppled the equine cruelty issue from the top of the “active bills” list. Bills float to the top of this list based on the number of visits, and the horse people have kept [...]
Soon, you’ll start to see a little counter on each bill page with the number of times that a wiki article has been viewed.
We put it there to measure how many times wiki articles are viewed, and perhaps to encourage potential wiki editors by showing them that a lot of people look there [...]
Though the text of the auto bailout bill Congress passed Wednesday is still not available, a summary of it is in the wiki article about the bill. (You’re familiar with the wiki-editable articles on each WashingtonWatch.com bill page, right?)
It turns out the bill is much like the one we looked at here (and here) the [...]
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 [...]