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...Perhaps even more significant than analyzing bills after the fact is being able to influence debates beforehand. "The holy grail of this new movement is to develop the technology for collaborative analysis of bills online," says Rafael DeGennaro, a longtime congressional staffer and former president of Taxpayers for Common Sense. An example of the impact of legislative annotation took place as far back as a year ago, when conservative blogger N.Z. Bear posted a PDF version of the 2007 Senate Immigration Bill, helping opponents of the bill rally around particularly controversial details that might otherwise have escaped their attention...
...DeGennaro now runs ReadtheBill.org, a nonpartisan start-up trying to build consensus around the idea that bills should be posted on the Web for 72 hours before congressional debate begins, so the public can assess and respond to pending legislation. The site is aligned with OpentheGovernment.org, which aims to reduce government secrecy. Key to reducing secrecy is exposing more and more about where the $16.8 trillion in federal spending ends up, which is the aim of Fedspending.org, a site that has been searched 7 million times over the past 20 months. A related project is Lawrence Lessig's Change Congress...
...specialists, who have to pass exams on how to handle monetary issues related to divorce, according to its president, Fadi Baradihi. The institute's membership of 1,500 is growing about 20% annually. "In divorce, one party may try to hide income from a spouse," says divorce expert Edward DeGennaro, based in Greenvale, N.Y. "We are trained to look out for this and help our client get his or her fair share of assets...
...Richard DeGennaro, Larsen librarian of Harvard College, said Harvard students should look for new technology to appear in the libraries within the next few years. One change he noted was the current construction of a local area network, which would link Harvard to information sources around Boston...
...DeGennaro says that the move could start asearly as this June. However, the Knowles and theUniversity's Library Committee must first formallyapprove the plan...