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FGI public testimony before Congress advocates for GPO gift authority
Here’s something fun I did this week. For their public witness day, I submitted testimony before the House appropriations subcommittee on the legislative branch for their FY2026 budget. :slightly_smiling_face: Many thanks to Daniel Schuman of the American Governance Institute and founder and an editor of the First Branch Forecast (you’re all subscribed to FBF right?!). […]
Data is plural newsletter posts 2 amazing govinfo datasets: House Comm witnesses and 1900 census immigrant populations
I love my Data Is Plural newsletter, Jeremy Singer-Vine’s weekly newsletter of useful/curious datasets! You can check out his archive from 2015(!) to present and also explore the archive as a google spreadsheet or as Markdown files (a dataset of interesting datasets :-)). Today’s edition was especially good on the govinfo front: 2 really awesome […]
Article from Legislative Studies Quarterly analyzes CRS reports to delve into expert consultation in Congress
Thanks FirstBranchForecast for posting about this recent research and analysis about how often legislators in Congress consult expert witnesses and information. Fagan and McGee analyzed every Congressional Research Service (CRS) report at EveryCRSReport.com from 1997-2017 in order to come up with their findings. The researchers note “Consultation between elected policymakers and experts is important to […]
DCinbox: amazing collection of Congressional e-newsletters
As many of our readers know, government information includes critical but often “grey” or ephemeral information including communications between our elected officials and their constituents. Here’s a very cool project called DCinbox, a database of Congressional e-newsletters. Lindsey Cormack, professor of politic at Stevens Institute of Technology, has been collecting Congressional e-newsletters since 2009. There […]
Congressional Budget Justifications (CBJs) are hard to find and here’s why
I’ve been very impressed with the research and thought that goes into the First Branch Forecast, the weekly newsletter focusing on transparency and governance issues being considered by Congress. There’s always something of interest in the newsletter, so I highly recommend that everyone subscribe. One item of interest in a recent Forecast was about Congressional […]
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