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Advocacy Blog
Friday, April 04, 2008
Mark Up Legislation in the Home not the Hearing Room
The Sunlight Foundation has created an initiative that allows citizens to participate in marking up the Transparency in Government Act of 2008, (TGA) on its site PublicMarkup.org. "Sunlight decided that public input and scrutiny would refine the bill and improve its chances of garnering lawmakers' support. Rather than immediately looking for legislators who might sponsor the bill, Sunlight, therefore, created PublicMarkup.org as a place to post the bill, and to allow you to comment on and suggest edits to the substance of the legislation." There are many provisions of the TGA, including requiring that all Freedom of Information Act requests online and making Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports available.
So, go ahead, markup. 
Posted by Amanda Adams
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