My OpenCongress: track every bill and lawmaker in Congress

OpenCongress's David Moore sez,

As Congress returns tomorrow to start a new session, the open-source OpenCongress.org is excited to announce a *major* update that puts every bill and vote at your fingertips. It's never been easier to track what's happening with your government.
Now on OpenCongress, you can build a personal profile of bills and people you're tracking, network with other users near and far, comment and vote on bills, and much more.
These brand-new "My OpenCongress" features place powerful tools for political participation in the hands of every user, using peer-to-peer communication to share the best information about Congress.
OpenCongress is a free, open-source, not-for-profit, and non-partisan public resource with a mission to encourage civic engagement and enable people to track what's really happening in Congress. OpenCongress is a joint project of the Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation.
More info about these new features, as well as pointers for some of the ways in which bloggers and issue-based groups can use them to keep their communities in touch with the latest from Congress, can be found on today's blog announcement linked above.

Link (Thanks, David!)

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simonmac

Yeah, I would love something like this for parliament in Australia. Fantastic site.
ASM

Congress isn’t back in session until January 22nd.
davidmoore

Hi there ASM — it’s true that Congress is just getting back into town and slowly gearing up for business. To be more specific, the House convenes for a meets at noon tomorrow, Tues. Jan. 15, while the Senate has a few pro forma sessions this week before convening on January 22nd.
Takuan

more useful: a money tracking system. Anyone working on that?
Crash

Takuan: http://www.politicalbase.com/ has a fairly extensive database of who has contributed to whose political campaign. I was slightly amused to learn that my favorite television actor and I both supported the same lost cause.
Takuan

I was hoping for a list of bribes, but OK.
craig1st

opencongress.org looks very interesting. Thanks for the link!