Full Text Reports carried a report today about the House Ways and Means Committee — 2012 Green Book (released November 2012).
I am always looking for data that might be of interesting for topic maps and the quoted blurb:
Since 1981, the Committee on Ways and Means has published the Green Book, which presents background material and statistical data on the major entitlement programs and other activities within the Committee’s jurisdiction. Over the decades, the Green Book has become a valuable resource and standard reference on American social policy. It is widely used by Members of Congress and their staffs, analysts in congressional and administrative agencies, members of the media, scholars, and citizens interested in the Nation’s social policy.
Seemed to fill the bill.
I sh*t you not. That is really the title.
No wonder they call it the “Green Book.”
When I got to the book itself, stop laughing!, you are ahead of me, all the tables are in PDF files.
No, I’m not going to convert them this time.
Why they don’t share machine readable files?, is a question you should ask your representative.
Thinking there may be a machine readable copy elsewhere, I searched for the “Green Book.”
Did you know the Department of Defense has a “Green Book?”
Or that Financial Management Services (Treasury) has a Greek Book?
Or that the Treasury has another Greek Book?
Or the U.S. Army Green Books? (apparently there are later ones than cited here)
Or that Obama has a Green Book.
Counting the one from Congress, that’s six and I suspect there are many more that any search will turn up.
Don’t suppose it ever occurred to anyone in government that distinguishing any of these for search purposes would be useful?