[10666] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
addenda re IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED! re Online Access to Congress
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Warren)
Thu Sep 26 20:46:19 1996
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 14:22:13 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jim Warren <jwarren@well.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU>
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU>
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Regarding the immediately-impending decision on Congress allowing *real*
citizen access to *our* business, a [covert] reporter friend sez what we
want is:
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We want access to the House Member Information Network (MIN), a far
ranging group of on-line information retrieval systems that include:
government statistics; the substance and present status of bills and
resolutions; floor amendments; floor proceedings; preaward grants
(pertaining to all federal assistance programs contained in the Catalogue
of Federal Domestic Assistance); postaward grants; and available contracts
and awarded contracts, listing every civilian contract of $10,000 or more
and every defense contract of $25,000 or more entered into by the federal
government over the previous 4 quarters. The MIN also provides the full
text of the Congressional Record since the 99th Congress.
MIN is the electronic diamond mine bought with tax dollars although
taxpayers have no presumed access. MIN is what we want to access.
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Call and fax (one-page, polite, to the point) Chairman of the House
Oversight Committee, Rep. Bill Thomas, and the Ranking Minority Member,
Rep. Vic Fazio -- both supposedly representing the *citizens* of California
-- NOW!
--jim
Jim Warren, GovAccess list-owner/editor, advocate & columnist (jwarren@well.com)
345 Swett Rd., Woodside CA 94062; voice/415-851-7075; fax-for-the-quaint/<ask>
