Why didn’t I think of this? Insanely useful websites…

July 3rd, 2007

The Sunlight Foundation has a collection of Insanely Useful Links for government transparency. No more can we cry foul that we can’t get the information we need, and that the House and Senate’s websites are too hard to navigate (well, they are! But that’s beside the point). There are many gems in this listing, such as Congressopedia, OpenCongress, OpenSecrets, OpenHearings, and FedSpending, among many others. From these sources, I’m able to see what my House Rep has been voting on, where he gets his campaign financing, what bills he sponsors, who he often votes with, who he often does not vote with, and other great bits of information. This is all information that would have been hard to dig through, but these great sites put it all right there at my fingertips.

You’ve got to love �Web 2.0,� clich�d as it may be.

I’m hoping that one day there will be an OpenWhiteHouse site. We badly need it, especially in light of a president and vice president who feel they are above the law, and that everything should be a secret. What are you two hiding, exactly?