The award named for President James Madison was established in 1989 and is presented annually on the anniversary of his birth to honor individuals or groups who have championed, protected and promoted public access to government information and the public's right to know at the national level.[1]
Former U.S. Congressman
Steve Horn; Government of Arlington County (VA), 2003
Steven Garfinkel, retired director of the Information Security Oversight Office;
John E. Moss the author of the Freedom of Information Act (awarded posthumously) 2002
Ben Bagdikian, journalist,
Wayne P. Kelley, former Superintendent of Documents of the Government Printing Office,
Eliot Christian and the U.S. Geological Survey, National Library of Medicine. 1998
The National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council, 1996
The
Government Printing Office, the State of Maryland's Sailor Project, the Seattle (WA) Public Library, and the Internet Multicasting Service's Town Hall Project, 1995
The legislators who led the passage of P.L. 103-40, the GPO Access Act: Vice President
Al Gore, original sponsor of the GPO Gateway to Government Act when he was in the Senate; Senators
Wendell Ford (D-KY) and
Ted Stevens (R-AK); Representatives
Charlie Rose (D-NC) and
Bill Thomas (R-CA), 1993
Senator
Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Representative
Henry Waxman (D-CA), journalist
Philip Shabecoff, and the Office of Toxic Substances of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1990
The award named for President James Madison was established in 1989 and is presented annually on the anniversary of his birth to honor individuals or groups who have championed, protected and promoted public access to government information and the public's right to know at the national level.[1]
Former U.S. Congressman
Steve Horn; Government of Arlington County (VA), 2003
Steven Garfinkel, retired director of the Information Security Oversight Office;
John E. Moss the author of the Freedom of Information Act (awarded posthumously) 2002
Ben Bagdikian, journalist,
Wayne P. Kelley, former Superintendent of Documents of the Government Printing Office,
Eliot Christian and the U.S. Geological Survey, National Library of Medicine. 1998
The National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council, 1996
The
Government Printing Office, the State of Maryland's Sailor Project, the Seattle (WA) Public Library, and the Internet Multicasting Service's Town Hall Project, 1995
The legislators who led the passage of P.L. 103-40, the GPO Access Act: Vice President
Al Gore, original sponsor of the GPO Gateway to Government Act when he was in the Senate; Senators
Wendell Ford (D-KY) and
Ted Stevens (R-AK); Representatives
Charlie Rose (D-NC) and
Bill Thomas (R-CA), 1993
Senator
Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Representative
Henry Waxman (D-CA), journalist
Philip Shabecoff, and the Office of Toxic Substances of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1990