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GoSee: Thriveal’s Three on Thursday (the “Track the Government” Edition)

November 19, 2009 by thriveal | No comments

GoSee Thriveal's Three on Thursday!There are some amazing sites out there that allow you to track your House and Senate interests, by person, by topic, by dollars, etc.

1.  OpenCongress: this is my favorite government tracking site.  You’ll get lost in the drill down of available data!  Make sure to check out The Money Trail under the representative or senator you are interested in to see who is contributing to their campaigns, how much money was given, listed by categorical interest and so much more – GoSee

2.  Govtrack.us is also a great website allowing you to actually answer questions as to the public’s questions about various legislation.  They claim to have started the “civic hacking” movement around the United States Congress (Joshua Tauberer’s blog, the founder of Govtrack.us, defines civic hacking as “the creative use of technology to innovate our civic lives especially our participation in government”) – GoSee

3.  Watchdog.net is another great government transparency site.  The design of the site is very clean, scaled down and not quite so confusing.  I seem to be able to access more information when viewing the site – GoSee

Thanks, Jason M. Blumer, CPA