. >> this week on the communicators, visit to capitol hill and the hack -athon. seminar to trade ideas on how to use technology in congress. >> host: now we want to introduce you to steve, one of the organizers of a congressional act upon. what you do for a living? i work in the state of maryland and handle things digital technology both technology policy and -- for all house democrats. >> host: what did you come up with this idea. >> guest: we first had this idea in 2011. the idea was to bring technologists from companies and have a big open event and invite everyone to the capital. we had a lot of pizza and stayed late. we had an open format to brainstorm and tried to work towards improving congress. >> host: what kind of ideas came out of that? >> there is a big focus on releasing legislative data in readable format. that's been a big push. it was a problem in the legislative branch. we have this data on certain websites but other websites didn't use that. due to that it took a couple years but we could release bulk data. that's released apps and other things

. >> this week on the communicators, visit to capitol hill and the hack -athon. seminar to trade ideas on how to use technology in congress. >> host: now we want to introduce you to steve, one of the organizers of a congressional act upon. what you do for a

monday night on the communicators, the second part of our coverage of the congressional hack-athon conference. >> i work for leader mccarthy and our goal is to bring people together on capitol hill. emperor of sort of government, make it more accountable to the people, and use the tool to come here and serve our constituents. >> we engineered a sort of new process for creating committee hearing reports, and that's a process that's been in place for many decades, and we developed an app that automates the process of compiling reports. it takes a process that had been taking weeks to do, very manual, a lot of data entry, to one that is just done with essentially a click of a button. >> watch the communicators monday night on 8:00 eastern on c-span two. >> now, a discussion on president trump's relationship with the news media. from today's washington journal, this is 40 minutes. for following this program. sean spicer, welcome back to c-span. guest: it is good to be back. i looked around

athon conference. >> i worked to improve government and make it more accountable to the people. and better serve our constituents. we engineered a holding process for creating committee hearing reports. that's a process that has been in place for many decades and be -- developed an app which compiles committee hearing reports. it took a process that have been taking weeks to one that had done with the click of a button. done with the click of a button. >> watched the communicators tonight 8:00 eastern on c-span two. >> i think the most important thing, the leaders of our great country can do, is preserve our right as citizens, not only in nevada but for all of the country. in this day of censorship, i think the need to remember that we are the freest country in the world and we need to stay like that. >> i think the most important thing our state's education. and moreore resources income coming to our teachers to help provide education for students. i think the most important in our northern nevada region is two things. one, affordable housing and two, workforce. thate growing s

theonday night on communicators, the second part of the congressional hack-athon conference. >> our goals to bring people together on capitol hill in order to improve government and make it more accountable to the people and use the tools to serve our constituents. >> we engineered a new process for committee hearing reports and that process has been in use for many decades. we developed and up that automates the process. it sort of takes a process that had been taking weeks to do. to one thata entry, is just done essentially with the click of a button. theuncer: watch communicators monday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span two. week, britishs prime minister theresa may outlines details of her plan regarding a customs arrangement with the european union. thehe start of the session, house of commons acknowledged police officers who apprehended the killer, a british -- of british