Upgrading the United States Congress

[awbryan]

I don't know about you, but I really don't think my Representative in Congress cares about what I think. I know this for a fact; I meet him on a plane every other January as he rushes back to get sworn in. He listens politely to me and tells me to call back to his staff, who of course never have any idea what I'm talking about

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[altamira16]

In Boulder, we had the option of sending people Belly Grams. Maybe we can send singing telegrams, bellygrams or stripograms to get their attention. We know that all Congresscritters loooove sex (scandals.)

But the whole Thomas thing needs to be revised. We should be able to follow the bill through the whole process seeing the various revs. If they can collect data on us, we should have a more open government giving us more data as well.

Yeah, THOMAS sucks

[awbryan]

I don't know what needs to be done with it but THOMAS is no longer good enough. It was whizbang amazing when it went up in '96 but nowadays there is a desperate need for the actions of Congress to be interleaved with public debate about those actions electronically. Why everyone puts up with letting the press and the politicians tell them the contents of bills when they could fact-check their asses themselves is beyond me