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Taking Congress at its word

June 18th, 2008 by davidw

The Sunlight Foundation has released its latest tool in the struggle for governmental transparency: CapitolWords.org. It scrapes the records and highlights the word used most often that day. For example, “tax” was used 23 times today. Of course, a calendar view is also available,

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5 Responses to “Taking Congress at its word”

  1. on 20 Jun 2008 at 9:39 am1 Gabriela

    Glad you like Capitol Words, David. FYI, we just created a widget so you can display the congressional word of the day on your site. Get it here: http://capitolwords.org/about/

  2. on 13 Jul 2008 at 4:20 pm2 Rogerw

    check out GovTrack.us…same and more…

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