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Like Facebook For Legislature
Posted by Alex Brant-Zawadzki in Politics
February 28, 2008 8:43 PM
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Not exactly as sexy as water for chocolate, but still.
Those crafty bastards over at Sunlight Foundation have cranked out the latest version of their watchdog tool for the Senate, Congress, committees, lobbyists and legislature: Open Congress.
We've recently added more ways to access the info created by the public on OpenCongress: helpful comments, votes on hot bills, social networking about your interests, and more.To find out how these new features bring you closer to what's really happening in Congress, visit today's announcement on our blog:
http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/431-New-Features-on-My-OpenCongress
Even if you haven't joined "My OpenCongress", you can help make our
site more useful. We hope you'll take a few minutes to fill out this
new user survey, your feedback is really important:http://websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/11719/opencongress.htm
It's been exciting to watch the "My OpenCongress" community grow over
the past weeks and start discussions on just about everything in
Congress. We have lots more features to release in the mon