Congress 2.0: live bloggable feeds for officials, topics, bills


	Congress 2.0: live bloggable feeds for officials, topics, bills

enbar

3-10-2007 12:02 AM

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enbar says:

Very cool project of the Sunlight Foundation and Participatory Politics Fdn. A flexible, mashable, real-time stream of data on whatever aspects of Congress's work interest you. Now we need something like this for the other two branches of government.

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