17 mar 2008 boing boing: Did US gov't sell exclusive access to legislative history to Thomson West? John Wonderlich of Sunlight Foundation alerted me to a situation at GAO. law librarians at GAO compiled complete fed legislative histories from 1915 on. These are dossiers that track a bill thu hearing process to law. GAO cut a deal w/ West to scan. West claims exclusive access and boast u should buy this "product" from West because GAO public employees done the work! track this issue @ Scribd group that has all doc obtained. we asked for a copy of every scan under FOIA