If members of Congress and their aides have information relevant to their decisions about legislation, and that information isn’t classified for security reasons, ordinary citizens ought to have access to that information too, so that we can use it to make informed decisions.
Joe Wilson has it backwards. Giving new power to withhold Internet traffic from sites that don’t have enough money to pay to a small number of corporations will not encourage innovation.
It looks like Nancy Pelosi’s staff is getting a bit flustered in its efforts to communicate with the public at late. Their server is showing.
Last month, Republican Representative Lamar Smith of Texas teamed up with fellow Republicans Jack Kingston and Michele Bachmann to introduce the new Media Fairness Caucus of the 111th Congress. The goal of the Media Fairness Caucus, Rep. Smith explained: “is not to censor or condemn, but to encourage the media to adhere to the highest [...]
It seems that in four years, the Blue Dog Democrats never once managed to get a press release placed on their own web site, though, and now they’ve reduced the site to essentially nothing.
Is this an attempt at an artistic statement, to say that Congress is without content?
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