Congressional Hackathon 5.0 Recap
A recap of Congressional Hackathon 5.0, co-hosted by the Speaker of the House, Minority Leader of the House, and the CAO.
Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models
This written submission is offered jointly by Westminster Foundation for Democracy and POPVOX Foundation to the UK House of Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee with regards to its post-legislative scrutiny inquiry of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 (“the Lobbying Act”).
Recommendations for a more constituent-friendly Congress
Earlier this month, I had the top-of-the-bucket-list chance to testify at a House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress on constituent services, and building a more customer-friendly Congress (video and transcript available here). As a former caseworker, it meant so much to be asked to come to DC to talk about casework, and share a starting-point vision for how Congress can capture the potential inherent in casework, and the expertise and talents of caseworkers across the country. The hearing covered so much ground, and it still only managed to scratch the surface of what’s possible and needed to push casework into the 21st century.
Fresh Eyes on Congressional Modernization
POPVOX Foundation research intern, Ian Chenoweth, is helping to launch a new “LegisTech”* series on legislative technology, with reviews and updates on new tools in use in the U.S. House of Representatives.
One of my first projects as a POPVOX Foundation summer intern was to research some of the new technology Congress has developed and deployed since the beginning of the pandemic. These include: the eHopper in the House of Representatives, Quill in both the House and Senate, and several others.