OpenCongress.org goes live

Boingboing.net points out the new website OpenCongress.org. The site bills itself as bringing "together official government data with news and blog coverage to give you the real story behind each bill."

It is basically aggregates congressional information from across the web and presents it in a nifty web 2.0 format. It takes "all the bills, Members of Congress, votes, committee reports, issue areas, and more" from Thomas, the website of the Library of Congress and combines it with Congressional news articles from google news, blog posts from Technorati and campaign contribution information from OpenSecrets.org.

-Dippold

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