On Sunday the Washington Post ran a story [3] about how two freshman members of Congress are posting their schedules online and that archives of their schedules can be found on Congresspedia [4]. We've gotten some inquiries, so allow me to point the way: go to the profile page for either Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand [5] (D-N.Y.) or Sen. Jon Tester [6] (D-Mont.) and you will find a link to their schedules in the second sentence.

It is particularly appropriate that Gillibrand and Tester are the first members of Congress to publicize their schedules as both the incumbents they defeated -- Rep. John Sweeney [7] and Sen. Conrad Burns [8], respectively -- had ties to convicted felon-lobbyist Jack Abramoff [9]. In fact, both accompanied Abramoff on junkets to the Northern Mariana Islands, where he pitched them on keeping the U.S. protectorate shielded from federal labor laws. One can only wonder what their schedules might have revealed.