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Show 'Em the Money

Jan Novak, Associate Director jan.novak@law.csuohio.edu | April 01, 2008 - 08:20

What is my Congressman or Senator up to and who is buying his vote? Or, less cynically, is there a way to investigate whether my representative is responding to the support of his constituents? Either way, a new site enables you to track the money given to federal or state legislators within days of their votes on a bill. See this example from Maplight.org: for results from the tab “$ near votes”. Select another tab, Congresspedia, for background information on the legislator from the wiki project of Sunlight Foundation and the Center for Media and Democracy.


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