Congressional websites are generally mediocre even if they tend to perk up in quality during an election year, states a new paper printed in a Brookings Institution newsletter. Based on the... Read more...

Republican senators do a better job than Democratic senators at using social media, says an analysis from two university business professors. The study measures presence on social media platforms... Read more...

Tactical communications along the southwest border gained a funding boost with President Obama's August 13 signing of a $600 million supplemental spending border security bill--a boost paid for in... Read more...

The House approved July 14 a second try a bill that would require agencies to allow telework to the maximum extent possible. Now that the House voted 290-131 in favor of it, the bill--or a comparable... Read more...

A proposed Senate bill would give the President power to force private-sector operators of information technology and communications "critical infrastructure" to implement government-designed... Read more...

A House bill authorizing $85.6 billion in federal science research spending over five years passed on the third attempt May 28. The bill would give $44 billion between fiscal 2011 and 2015 to the... Read more...

The House fiscal 2011 national defense authorization bill could nudge along Defense Department acquisition reform by encouraging the Pentagon to adopt findings of the House Panel on Defense... Read more...

Legislative reform of federal cybersecurity practices came yet another step closer to reality May 28 with House passage of the fiscal 2011 national defense authorization bill, which includes an... Read more...

Congress Democrats said May 24 they'll begin a "process to develop proposals" to change the Communications Act--which was last significantly amended in 1996. In a terse statement on the Senate... Read more...

A second attempt to pass a major science funding authorization bill failed in the House of Representatives by 12 votes on May 19. The bill, a revised version of the America COMPETES Reauthorization... Read more...