House Appropriators May Limit Public Availability of Pending Bills

Attila Dimedici writes "The House Appropriations Committee is considering a draft report that would forbid the Library of Congress to allow bulk downloads of bills pending before Congress. The Library of Congress currently has an online database called THOMAS (for Thomas Jefferson) that allows people to look up bills pending before Congress. The problem is that THOMAS is somewhat clunky and it is difficult to extract data from it. This draft report would forbid the Library of Congress from modernizing THOMAS until a task force reports back. I am pretty sure that the majority of people on Slashdot agree that being able to better understand how the various bills being considered by Congress interact would be good for this country."

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>>> have been signed no further questions asked by Nixon

Yeah you're probably right, but the Supreme Court would strike it down. Per the Constitution's 10th amendment only the Member States of the union have the power to provide government heatlhcare and/or forced mandates to purchase insurance. NOT the Congress.

Yes that's an inconvenient facet of the law, nevertheless it IS the supreme law of the land. If Democrats (or socialists) don't like it then they should amend the constitution to allow Congress to provide healthcare (or mandate insurance purchases).