As you may know, we’ve had a system for rating members of the House and Senate for a few years now, with information on votes and cosponsorships that are important from a progressive perspective.
We’re planning an upgrade of our congressional database system in the near future, and we have some nifty plans for the kind of information we’re going to make available. But I thought it would also be a good idea to ask you what sort of information you’d like to see, or what you’d like to be able to do with it.
If you have any ideas, I’m all ears.
i would like to see a list of all the lobbyists that each of these scumbags is “in bed with”, just so we know who’s calling the tune that WE’RE PAYING FOR.
Another section might show all the different bills and their voting records. (You may already have this, since you must base your “progressive scorecard” on something).
Contact links to each of them would allow us to vent our feelings about their actions or to tell them how we feel about what’s going on and what they should (better) do about it.
If only there were a “lobbyist bed database” put out by the government, that would make things easier. As far as I know, John McCain is the only member of Congress to actually bed his lobbyists.
Man, Tom, I’d love to be able to report the connections between particular lobbyists and particular members of Congress. Unfortunately, such information is not publicly reported or even privately collected by the Government.