Another Senator's Schedule Posted on Congresspedia

by Conor Kenny — March 8, 2007 - 6:46pm
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    Our friends at the Sunlight Network are still working on their Punch Clock Campaign, which is aimed at getting members of Congress to post their daily schedule online so their constituents can see what they're up to in Washington. Thus far, Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) have been posting their schedules and we've been copying them to sub-pages off their profiles on Congresspedia for safekeeping and archival purposes (both members' schedules appear to go offline after a while).

    Apparently, a reporter at Congress Daily thought this was an interesting idea and started calling up other members to see if their own schedules were online and dug up the fact that Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) has also been quietly posting his. Here, for example, is how the senator spent Wednesday:

    9 a.m.
    - constituent coffee
    9:30 a.m.
    - meet with admiral timothy keating
    10 a.m.
    - drop by meeting with florida inland navigation officials
    - meet with lebanese minister of defense
    11 a.m.
    - attend joint meeting of congress re: king abdullah of jordan speech
    noon
    - meet with lt. gen. robert van Antwerp, nominee for commanding general, army corp of engineers
    12:30 p.m.
    - meet with stetson university president
    1 p.m.
    - meet with former senate sergeant-at-arms jim zigler
    1:30 p.m.
    - meet with walton county commissioners
    2 p.m.
    - meet with miami beach mayor
    - intelligence committee hearing and business meeting
    2:30 p.m.
    - space subcommittee hearing re: nasa earth sciences programs
    4:30 p.m.
    - meet with volusia county officials
    5 p.m.
    - meet with florida cement industry representatives
    5:30 p.m.
    - meet with former congressman lou frey
    6 p.m.
    - meet with former senator gary hart and officials from council for a livable world

    The Congresspedia staff will cheerfully begin archiving Sen. Nelson's schedule on its own page. Now, if only Rep. Dennis Rehberg (R-Mont.) would follow up on his promise to make his schedule available, we'd start posting his too.