Cantor Announces New
Website
Jun 04, 2013 | Posted byTeam Cantor
Congressman Cantor has
launched a website that allows individual citizens to show their support for
pending legislation by “cosponsoring” bills. This will allow people to endorse
legislation that they feel will benefit them or their community directly. The
National Review Online posted the story below about the new website www.Cosponsor.gov.
House GOP unveils website allowing public to ‘co-sponsor’
bills
House Republicans are launching a new website aimed at engaging citizens in the legislative process by allowing them to “co-sponsor” bills introduced in Congress.
House Republicans are launching a new website aimed at engaging citizens in the legislative process by allowing them to “co-sponsor” bills introduced in Congress.
Majority Leader Eric
Cantor (R-Va.) touted the new site, cosponsor.gov, at a press conference Tuesday.
“This is a
program and a website designed to engender a national conversation online about
legislation that we’re considering here in Congress,” Cantor said. “It is yet
another example of our trying to live up to the commitment of transparency, the
fact that this is a government that belongs to the people, and they ought to
know what’s going on.”
The site will allow users
to track legislation as it goes through committee and to the floor, and it
could give lawmakers an idea of which proposals are gaining traction outside
the Beltway.
“Hopefully what we will see
is a lot of activity in that regard,” Cantor said.
The site will include every
bill introduced by both Republicans and Democrats, Cantor wrote in a separate
blog post detailing the initiative.
