Anonymous ID: 49df37 Dec. 23, 2020, 9:47 p.m. No.12154319   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>12154097

Comms and not a joke???

 

Navidad, Chile, a commune in Cardenal Caro Province, O'Higgins Region, Chile

 

Navidad Formation, a geological formation in Chile

 

La Navidad, a settlement in what is now Haiti

 

Barra de Navidad, town in the Mexican state of Jalisco

 

Navidad Lake, Bolivian lake

 

Navidad Bank, submerged bank in the Atlantic Ocean

 

Navidad River, coastal river in the U.S. state of Texas

 

Navidad mine, a large silver mine in Argentina

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navidad

Anonymous ID: 49df37 Dec. 23, 2020, 10:14 p.m. No.12154546   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>12154464

>12153810

>12153985 (You)

>Red Line

>#InternetBillOfRights

 

Automatic Redlining for Legislation? Rep. Elise Stefanik Wants to Make it Happen

 

But in Congress, document redlining is not normal.

 

On their way to death or passage – usually death – pieces of legislation are usually amended many times. You can track a bill’s progress on Congress.gov. But you can’t see how each version changed from the last one.

 

To redline a bill from its last version, you have to copy-paste both versions into Microsoft Word and run a comparison yourself. And that’s tricky, because page numbers and preambles and formatting don’t line up.

 

But Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) wants to change that. How? Open data is how.

 

Rep. Stefanik, joined by Luke Messer (D-IN) introduced the Establishing Digital Interactive Transparency Act (EDIT Act) (H.R. 5493) on June 14th, 2016. The bill is currently pending in the House of Representatives’ Committee on House Administration. When this bill is signed into law, the Library of Congress would be charged with implementation and would have one year to comply.

 

What will it do?

 

The main body of the EDIT Act is one short, very sweet sentence:

 

“In the operation of the Congress.gov website, the Librarian of Congress shall ensure that each version of a bill or resolution which is made available for viewing on the website is presented in a manner which permits the viewer to follow and track online, within the same document, any changes made from previous versions of the bill or resolution.”

 

Translation: everybody gets a redline!

 

Imagine having the ability to track and monitor changes to a bill from its initial conception, through committee markup, to the House of Representatives and Senate floor for amendments and voting, all the way to the President’s desk. This would create a truly transparent legislative process. But we aren’t there yet.

 

How do we get to automatic redlining?

 

There’s only one way to do this: open data.

 

(Continued)

 

https://www.datacoalition.org/automatic-redlining-for-legislation-rep-elise-stefanik-wants-to-make-it-happen/