Open Data and Congressional Oversight
By Hudson Hollister In January 2012, I resigned from my Capitol Hill job to start an organization that I called the Data Transparency Coalition. Now called the… Read More
New Innovation Fellows Arrive In Congress and Aim to Augment Capacity
Two hundred individuals applied, and only four were chosen as the 2017 TechCongress Innovation Fellows. They are: Sunmin Kim, a deputy editor for The Economist Intelligence Unit, who specialized… Read More
Congress, Meet Big Data. Big Data Meet Congress
Quorum cards with senators and representatives’ stats. Source: Washingtonian.com In case you missed it, the Washingtonian ran a piece on Quorum, a wonky, big data group that analyzes Congress. … Read More
Video: Meeting to Discuss Whether the Office of Technology Assessment Should Be Revived
The speakers at this October 19, 2016 meeting of the Legislative Branch Capacity Working Group were: Kevin R. Kosar, R Street Institute John Costello, TechCongress Adam Keiper,… Read More
Strengthening Congressional Oversight Through Crowd-Sourcing
Congress has a big problem when it comes to oversight. The federal government has grown vastly larger over the past century, but Congress has done little to empower itself… Read More