U.S. Congress MAPLight.org

http://www.maplight.org/

MAPLight.org, Berkeley, Calif.

Honorable Mention

From the Judges: “Every taxpayer should take a hard look at this site. Never before have citizens been able to so easily track the influences on their elected officials.”

A large-scale database combining all campaign contributions to members of Congress with how each official votes on every bill, illuminating patterns of money and influence that were never before possible to see without hours or days of effort. The MAPLight.org Web site launched May 16th, 2007 and covers all bills and votes in the current, 110th Congress. The site is updated daily within an hour of each vote on Capitol Hill.

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