OpenCongress and GovTrack are thrilled that people are using the open government tools.

Here’s a great example of the kind of textually-informed conversations about bills we have been trying to encourage...
Having the links back to the exact portion of the bill under discussion make it engaging. It’s easy to be disingenuous about legislation by making a false claim and backing it up with a line of text taken out of context. That’s basically how the “death panel” myth was spread over the summer. But providing a link to the specific line within the bill invites people to look it up for themselves, read it in context and make their own judgement.

InventorSpot is a little more skeptical.

So has the GOP found a large enough megaphone to amplify their message to the decibal level they require? Will this new social media tactic be the silver bullet they've been looking for, or will their social media clipping service turn out to just a little more of the same - a lot of reasons for "why not," but with no alternate solutions in site?

Go through the OpenCongress link above if you want to start getting your fingers dirty.

Check out Congressman Duncan's Amplog

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