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Eye on Congress: Write Your Senators & Representative Using Policy Map

October 10, 2008

Explores how the online research tool Policy Map helps people write their leaders in Congress about today’s current events

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Eye on Congress: India Nuclear Deal

October 1, 2008

While everyone is paying attention to what looks to be a compromise on the bailout bill, the fact that the Senate is about to approve an agreement to open civilian nuclear trade with India is getting very little play. I was, however, amused by this write up of the issue. The reporter (Peter Baker) tried [...]

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Eye on Congress: Project Vote Smart

September 30, 2008

Perhaps the most useful tool in understanding your elected leaders in the House and the Senate resides at Project Vote Smart. While not completely devoid of a left-of-center bias, the site is extremely useful for giving you well organized, accessible information about your elected officials and upcoming elections all the way down to the local [...]

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Eye on Congress: An Introduction

September 28, 2008

YTP was reading the other day about two American sociological and cultural trends that had dramatic consequences for today’s political situation. The first was a shift from respect for people in positions of authority to near automatic criticism of them. The second was a shift from Congressional scrutiny to Executive branch scrutiny. Both of these [...]

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