Comments on: RTFB http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/02/26/rtfb/ Let's just see what happens Sun, 16 Jun 2013 09:24:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Brian Cartwright http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/02/26/rtfb/comment-page-1/#comment-41432 Brian Cartwright Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:51:40 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/02/26/rtfb/#comment-41432 and now I’ve found it here:
readthestimulus.org/hr1_final.txt

]]> By: davidw http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/02/26/rtfb/comment-page-1/#comment-41402 davidw Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:49:35 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/02/26/rtfb/#comment-41402 Getting it in XML so it can be machine-processed would be very useful, and the site promises that it’s working on that.

In the meantime, I did a craptastic job of converting it to plain text, which you can access here

]]> By: Brian Cartwright http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/02/26/rtfb/comment-page-1/#comment-41400 Brian Cartwright Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:05:22 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/02/26/rtfb/#comment-41400 Thanks, David, for posting this! A couple of points:
– The Sunlight Foundation has an online petition for this purpose. It’s to the point and easy to fill out.
– I looked over the PDF (13 MB) of the bill linked from recovery.gov and the boilerplate language and governmental typesetting is just mind-deadening. How hard would it be to make a text-only version available? Would any meaningful content be lost? (I would think not.) Then we citizens could search and quote and abstract it and get some discussion going on specifics of the legislation. I’m glad Joe Biden is on the watchdog case, but, umm, mightn’t he need some help?

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