New Addition To Laws And Regulations At USA.gov

One of USA.gov sites dedicated to Laws and Regulations has been updated with a link titled Open Congress.

Open Congress brings together official government data with news coverage, blog posts, public comments, and more.

Open Congress is a free, open-source, not-for-profit, and non-partisan web resource with a mission to make Congress more transparent and to encourage civic engagement. Open Congress is a joint project of the Participatory Politics Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation.

See About OpenCongress to read more about this project's mission. And see How To Use OpenCongress.

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Project: RaceTracker

A project of the Sunlight Foundation and PPF,

The RaceTracker project on the OpenCongress wiki tracks every election for the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives and state governor. RaceTracker is a free, open-source, fully-referenced, and non-partisan public resource.

You can find:

• Candidates for each seat and their status
• Campaign contribution information
• District maps, past election results, and more

Check out the RaceTracker Project wiki and find out how you can participate. The home page features current hot topics, such as 2010 elections, 2009 stimulus bill, 2008 bank bailout bill, 111th Congress, members of Congress who twitter, members of Congress under investigation, members of Congress posting schedules online, and many other topics.