OpenCongress Resources 
Resources
Our Code
Developers & programmers: OpenCongress is an open-source community project licensed under the GNU GPL. We're contributors of code and data back to the commons, evangelists for open standards, believers in free culture, and activists for liberation of public data.
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State and District Portals
Get local on OpenCongress and see what users near you care about. Click on any state or Congressional district to see its Members of Congress, the top bills tracked by users in that state, and what users in that state support and oppose.
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Head-to-Head Vote Comparison
Compare the voting records of any two senators or representatives during the current 111th session of Congress. See side-by-side voting records on hot bills, and more.
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OpenCongress Facebook Application
With the OpenCongress Facebook app, you can put bills that interest you on your Facebook profile. It's an easy way to tell your friends which pieces of legislation you are following. You can also add a comment about why you think the bill is important.
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OpenCongress Data Partners
GovTrack
Official bill information on OpenCongress is provided by GovTrack, an independent, non-partisan, non-commercial website founded in September 2004. GovTrack brings together information on the status of federal legislation, voting records, and other congressional data from official sources.
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OpenSecrets
Campaign contribution information on OpenCongress is provided by OpenSecrets, the website of the Center for Responsive Politics. The CRP is a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy.
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Technorati
Blog coverage on OpenCongress is provided in part by Technorati, which searches and organizes blogs and other forms of independent, user-generated content. Additional news and blog coverage on OpenCongress is provided by Google News and Google Blog Search.
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Other Resources for Government Transparency
OpenMass.org
OpenMass.org is an independent public resource website created by Jim Caralis. Modeled on OpenCongress, OpenMass uses our open-source website code in presenting data from the website of the Massachusetts state legislature alongside news and blog coverage. We're very excited by OpenMass, which is also in beta, and also a non-profit project, though not affiliated with OpenCongress. We hope to see the OpenCongress model extend to state, local, and other levels, and we'll be working with Jim Caralis to document more of his process in creating OpenMass.
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MAPLight.org
MAPLight.org brings together campaign contributions and how legislators vote, providing an unprecedented window into the connections between money and politics. Now, individuals and reporters can quickly determine how closely a vote in Congress correlates with special-interest contributions. OpenCongress is proud to work alongside sites like MAPLight in creating tools for further government transparency and civic engagement.
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Sunlight Labs
Sunlight Labs is a Sunlight Foundation pilot project to prototype tech ideas to improve government transparency and political influence disclosure. A current major focus is working with the such partners developing APIs Application Program Interfaces which allows one program to talk to another and share data.
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Buttons!
Put an OpenCongress button on your website! Just copy and paste the code to the right into your webpage.
