SleepyEgg

Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) has introduced a bill that aims to put all government documents online—or at least the public ones, anyway. As part of the "Public Online Information Act," the documents would be submitted to a free, searchable database, and an advisory committee would be established in order to oversee the process.

The text of the bill acknowledges that the federal government has made past efforts to make documents available to the public, but that government information remains "too often hard to find, difficult to understand, expensive to obtain in useful formats, and available in only a few locations." What it boils down to is this: finding government documents is often a huge pain in the butt.