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Taking Congress at its word

June 18th, 2008 by

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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  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…

  3. on 26 Jul 2008 at 11:09 pm3 Barack Obama

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  4. on 26 Jul 2008 at 11:13 pm4 US Economics

    Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.AlbertEinsteinAlbert Einstein

  5. on 28 Jul 2008 at 3:37 am5 2008 Election

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  6. on 18 Dec 2008 at 5:30 pm6 Lizzie Nolan

    Thought you would like to know that we’ve just launched a brand new version of Capitol Words.

    Here is the link: http://capitolwords.org/.

    Capitol Words now has more information you can see what the most said words are over the period of a year, the whole Congress, month, and even day. You can also see what words a lawmaker is saying the most. These improvements give users an at-glance view and better understanding of what is happening in the halls of Congress.

    Thanks for your support,

    Lizzie

    Communications Assistant
    The Sunlight Foundation
    http://www.sunlightfoundation.com