Some thoughts on the strategy of retiring projects and how we look back at our work on the new tools page.
Continue readingIt Was A Very Good Year
Sunlight hasn’t been around nearly as long as that song — it was first recorded in 1961 and we opened... View Article
Continue readingIntroducing Congrelate
I've been tweeting about this for quite some time, but I should announce it on the blog too. Check out Congrelate, another project of ours. Congrelate lets you view, sort, filter and share information about members of Congress. We've taken data from the Center for Responsive Politics, the Census, GovTrack and our own API and made it so you can create queries on that data and incorporate it into a big sheet. Of course, you can also export the data into CSV and JSON if you'd like, too.
Continue readingCongressional Lawmakers “Invested” in Health Reform Debate
Yesterday afternoon, the Center for Responsive Politics came out with a report showing how many congressional lawmakers have invested hundreds... View Article
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