Kat, I did look at your link. After I posted mine. Sigh! I plead the flu. No I don't. It was the Bush people, out to get me....oops, sorry, I'm the egomaniac, trolls the paranoid. Apologies anyway. I still can't find anything. Maybe Monday at work.

McGrath,

The ways of our Congress are worthy of Byzantium at its apex. Probably deliberately so. The last thing most politicians seem to want (and not just at the Federal level) is for the voters to know what's going on. In my County, appointees to the various Regulatory and Advisory Boards are usually published about 4 days before the meeting. Not a lot of time to figure out if the person's someone you want on a Board. If you understand the system, you can find out the names a lot earlier. Is the system documented so you can figure out where to look by reading the rules of procedure? Not likely.

Then there's the Federal Register. That's where all the regulations are published, often based on a law that says "we want to do thus-and-so" and authorize a Department to make up rules to make it so.

All the liberal/conservative smoke screen aside, it does explain why a lot of people don't get involved or bother to vote. The new County Manager where I live, for example, would like to see community associations given at least partial control over the discretionary tax dollars budgeted for their community. It has happened in a few places, but then so has the election of socialist mayors. It rarely goes anywhere.

Regards, John