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A nifty new website for the political wonks out there

OpenCongress is a pretty cool new site. Its goal is to bring “together official government data with news and blog coverage to give you the real story behind each bill.” In meeting this goal, the website gives you access to all types of Congressional information, including bills, votes and campaign contribution information. Where it can be especially useful is in tracking what your own Congressmen are up to:

I went to one of my Member of Congress’ site and viewed his votes, an analysis of his votes showed where the majority of his campaign contributions came from (real estate, insurance and finance) and the latest coverage on him from news and blogs. Best of all, there are live feeds to which you can subscribe and get yourself whenever your Member of Congress does anything new. There’s even a button to contact your representative so when they do something naughty or nice, you can always be sure to stay in touch.

The site itself doesn’t seem to be running so smoothly right now (and it does note in its banner that it’s still in the beta stage), but once they get the kinks worked out, this could be a real cool little tool. Unfortunately, I don’t think it’ll do anything to change the general political apathy of most folks.

Posted by Seth on February 28, 2007 | Comments (1)