What are the costs and benefits of increased congressional transparency?

What will be an ideal response?

Lack of transparency is a major source of public mistrust, so increasing transparency can lead to greater trust that members are actually working in the public interest. It can also lead to greater accountability. On the other hand, transparency can hamper internal legislative bargaining and compromise. Members might be less willing to negotiate and strike bargains with unpopular consequences if these deals can come back to haunt them in a future election. Reforms such as televisions in Congress (i.e., CSPAN) may also have made Congress more partisan as members use the floor to posture before the camera.