Adrian Holovaty announced the launch of his first project since joining the Washington Post. It's a database of all Congressional vote activity since 1991. This is cool, very cool, and exactly what newspapers need to do more of (no big surprise that Adrian is behind it).
Users can browse by bill, Representative or Senator and subscribe to RSS feeds for an individual. For example I can watch all activity for my local rep, Adam Putnam or subscribe to the RSS feed.
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Adrian Holovaty just announced WaPo’s new database of each congressman’s voting record. The U.S. Congress Votes Database allows you to keep tabs on the voting records of every representative, broken down by various categories.
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Another excellent site is http://opensecrets.org/ ,where you can find out about their contributions...
Posted by: j.bo | December 6, 2005 9:05 AM