The End of Transparency (Before It Ever Began):

The Volokh Conspiracy wrote The End of Transparency (Before It Ever Began). Obama seems to have abandoned one of his transparency ideas: "“When there’s a bill that ends up on my desk as president, you the public will have five days to look online and find out what’s in it before I sign it, so that you know what your government’s doing"

Congress is doing an even better job of it. This is about the Waxman-Markey climate change bill:

"As it turns out, there was not even a copy of the final bill language available in any form when the bill passed. Rather, as David Freddoso reports, the House Clerk had a copy of the 1090-page bill that emerged by committee and a copy of the 300-page set of amendments agreed upon at 3am Friday morning, and many provisions in the latter consist of the likes of 'Page 15, beginning line 8, strike paragraph (11) . . .' In other words, it is highly doubtful that more than a handful of member of Congress knew the contents of the legislation they voted on."