[EL] Super-committee

[John Wonderlich]

Yes. We're calling for all official meetings to be public, which is
different from all meetings among officials.

On Wednesday, August 3, 2011, Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu> wrote:
> Daniel,
> I think I agree with all of your proposed disclosure suggestions, but it
does seem to me that for this committee to be effective, they will have to
be able to negotiate behind closed doors.  If every meeting between
officials on this super-committee had to be in public (as is common with
many legislative bodies) it is hard to see how the difficult compromises
could be made.
> Agreed?
> Rick
>
> On 8/3/11 7:18 PM, Daniel Schuman wrote:
>
> For those interested, the Sunlight Foundation sent a letter today calling
for the committee's activities to be transparent. There aren't many
provisions that allow for the public to see it's work.
>
http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2011/08/03/opensupercongress-debt-committee-must-be-transparent/
> Also, just put together a quick calendar of when legislative activity must
happen in the committee:
http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2011/08/03/debt-ceiling-legislative-action-calendar/
>
> Daniel
>
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> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Toby Dorsey <tdorsey at starpower.net> wrote:
>
> As I read the legislation, it is not delegating legislative authority.  It
is simply
> creating a special committee that has certain responsibilities, and
providing
> streamlined consideration of its work.  The two houses of Congress are
> empowered by the Constitution to make their own rules.  What they are
> doing here is likely modeled after other fast track mechanisms, such as
fast
> track consideration of trade agreements and streamlined BRAC (base
> realignment and closure) processes.
>
> The media reports of what the bill does is one thing, but what the actual
bill
> does is another.  My initial take, at any rate.
>
>
> ---- Original message ----
>>Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 15:32:29 -0700
>>From: Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu>
>>Subject: Re: [Leg] [EL] Super-committee
>>To: Steve Hoersting <hoersting at gmail.com>
>>Cc: "law-election at uci.edu" <law-election at uci.edu>, law-
> legislation at uci.edu
>>
>>   Sorry, resending.  I had sent this to the old
>>   Legislation listserv address.
>>   Rick
>>   On 8/3/2011 3:30 PM, Rick Hasen wrote:
>>
>>     Steve,
>>     I think these are interesting questions.  I'm
>>     copying folks on the Legislation listserv, where
>>     this discussion might be more appropriate.  (To<
>
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