Welcome to YOUR latest tool for congressional accountability.

* Learn about the latest legislation of significance to the current and aspiring middle class.

* Find out how your member of Congress voted on that legislation. You can search by name, state or zipcode.

* Track the scores of your representatives.

Explore TheMiddleClass.org today! - http://www.themiddleclass.org/

With Congress returning Washington to start a new session,OpenCongress.org just launched several new features to help you track and rate what's happening on Capitol Hill and organize support for the legislation and issues you care about. The first, My OpenCongress http://www.opencongress.org/, is the first-ever social network designed for people who care about Congress. Now, OpenCongress makes it super easy to track any bill, senator, representative or issue area on the site, simply by clicking "track this" at the top of any page. Use your OpenCongress profile to make your voice heard: vote "aye" or "nay" for every bill in Congress, give a personal approval rating to senators and representatives on a scale of 1-100, and see the total votes for each bill and lawmaker.

OpenCongress just announced some new tools and widgets to track bills and issues working their way through congress.

OpenCongress brings together official government information with news and blog coverage to give you the real story behind what's happening in Congress.

For most people, finding out what's really happening in Congress is a daunting and time-consuming task. The legislative process is frequently arcane and closed-off from the public, resulting in frustration with Congress and apathy about politics.

Small groups of political insiders and lobbyists know what's really going on in Congress, but this important information rarely makes its way into the light. The official website of the library of Congress, Thomas, publishes the full text of bills, but we can do much more to inform ourselves and make our government accessible. Now, with OpenCongress, everyone can be an insider.

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