OpenCongress.org

I’ve got to admit that I don’t track my representative and senators as much as I should. This is about to change. I just found OpenCongress.org and so far I’m impressed. Create an account and it will find your rep and senators for you. From there you can add more, track legislation, get related news stories, leave comments and even vote yea/nay on individual bills. Oh, and you can subscribe to all of it via RSS! So, now whenever Rep Fortenberry, or Senators Hagel or Nelson do something, I’ll know about it.

You can also create blog widgets to track legislation. Here’s one on the recent FISA bill.

Feel free to add me as a friend. My username is msauers.

One Reply to “OpenCongress.org”

  1. Thanks for sharing this. It is a great tool for civic participation and for my course on politics and democracy in the 2.0 world. Good stuff.

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