Re: [Discuss] keeping an eye on congress

2011-12-21 Thread Matthew Gillen
On 12/20/2011 08:28 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Dan Ritter wrote: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/megavote/ There you go. Everything except a different name. The description: Track your Senators' and Representative's votes by e-mail Each week (that Congress is in session) you will

Re: [Discuss] keeping an eye on congress

2011-12-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 12/21/2011 12:24 PM, Rich Braun wrote: For those who live in the district where BLU happens to hold its meetings (MIT environs), the congressman is Michael Capuano who has held himself to a quite high level of accountability through his weekly (sometimes twice weekly) constituent

Re: [Discuss] keeping an eye on congress

2011-12-20 Thread Tom Metro
Bill Horne wrote: Email is analyized and weighted for keywords, after being run through /very/ expertly devised filters which identify mail bomb auto-writing campaigns and chain letters. Printed mail is often simply weighed, after being sorted by zip code. Only hand-written letters get seen by

Re: [Discuss] keeping an eye on congress

2011-12-20 Thread Daniel C.
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Tom Metro tmetro-...@vl.com wrote: There ought to be a service (and perhaps there is, but I haven't ran across it) that publishes a summarized, easily digestible report of what legislation is coming up in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Probably a

Re: [Discuss] keeping an eye on congress

2011-12-20 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 05:06:02PM -0500, Daniel C. wrote: I've considered launching a service (called something like Political Inaction) that does something like this. You'd get regular digests that summarize the bills before your governing bodies (state, national, whatever) with links to

Re: [Discuss] keeping an eye on congress

2011-12-20 Thread Daniel C.
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Dan Ritter d...@tao.merseine.nu wrote: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/megavote/ Perfect. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss