This is really impressive! The tools seem to be able to track money and
time invested on an issue per senator before a vote. Worth reading the post.
May 24, 2007, 2:58 pm
David Pogue, NYTimes
Following the Money Trail Online
<
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/following-the-money-trail-online/>
The first step to solving a problem is recognizing that you have one.
That’s what I keep telling myself, anyway, to avoid becoming depressed
by Maplight.org <
http://maplight.org/>.
It’s a new Web site with a very simple mission: to correlate lawmakers’
voting records with the money they’ve accepted from special-interest groups.
All of this is public information. All of it has been available for
decades. Other sites, including OpenSecrets.org
<
http://www.opensecrets.org/>, expose who’s giving how much to whom. But
nobody has ever revealed the relationship between money given and votes
cast to quite such a startling effect.
Read
on...
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/following-the-money-trail-online/#more-291
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