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cavilling_elite | 12 years ago

opencongress.org exists. but that doesn't mean that Congress looks at it.

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hga|12 years ago

Congress doesn't have to look at it, enough voters have to look at it.

This is what political parties and eeeevil special interest groups that are powerful through the votes they influence do. In the case I'm most familiar with, the NRA's political lobbying arm (and eeeevil 501(c)(4)) grades politicians, and will send out alerts for the more important elections (as well as actions on bills). Many former politicians who were send back home to spend more time with their families in part due to NRA and general gun owner action can attest to the effectiveness of this.

The same could happen in this area, the first vote on it was extremely encouraging.