The Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation bring together legislation, news, and the teeming blogosphere on their new website.
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Visitors to the site can focus on tracking bills of particular interest as they make their way through the legislative process. OpenCongress organizes those bills by common issue areas, just as they are designated by the Congressional Research Service.
People can follow bills, issues, or members of the House or Senate as topics that can be subscribed to as RSS feeds. OpenCongress also offers a feed of the bills before Congress that have been the most covered by news sites or blogs.
A box on the home page of the site shows the latest roll call votes that have taken place in either chamber of Congress. Details for each question show the roll call information, including who voted and how they voted.
OpenCongress has plans to expand the site's functionality now that the launch has taken place. Future improvements they discussed include user logins, collaborative analysis of legislation, and bill tagging. They are actively soliciting feedback about the site, including bug reports and other suggestions  {
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