OpenGov - Open Government Brainstorm

28. Bills and Legislation Made Legible: An upgraded of Federal Government website from the current shorthand of recording bills and legislation. Meaning, bills and legislation should be made to be easy to read and easy to identify the source via congressional icons or photo along with description/service. Amendments to the bill or legislation should be easy to trace origins, along with comments, suggestions, and objections. Bills should come with written statements addressing the issue, cost estimates, and dates. Projects that require outside the government assistance should be bided in an open format, the lowest bid or the best bids should be considered. A congressman/citizen should be able to vote at every level of a bill, should an amendment to a bill carry the most votes/weight than it moves up the bill listing. One Issue per Bill, no riders, no earmarks. Each bill in its totality, could die in discussion, be stored for later review, or passed. A record of every bill must be maintained in the government index, passed bills forward and failed bills recorded. This recording of failed bills may cause an increase of repetitive bills, but measures can be described to write in retry dates. Retry dates may be override by numerical consent.

There is a site for some of what you suggested.

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/

Choose your officials by zipcode, get all their contact information, bills they recently voted on and upcoming bills.

View all current bills/issues in congress.

Thanks for the link. I think I'd prefer something that is sponsored or supported by the government. Something that is closer to the govt, specific reps, agencies, even lobbyists and allows for more direct democracy. congress.org didn't seem that comprehensive, no way to search for past legislation, etc.

I use govtrack to look up legislation, old legislation, bills that were never passed and so on, very comprehensive. Just that the short hand and referencees to admend other bills makes it murky.

http://www.govtrack.us

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and support Campaign for Liberty

Surplus money: Google CAFR1 then you will see where the money is. also called The Biggest Game in Town.