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- STATS -- Statistical
Assessment Service -- is a resource on the use
and abuse of science and statistics in the media.
- Institute for Public Accuracy
provides news releases that offer
well-documented analysis of current events and underlying issues.
- Center for Public
Integrity: Researches and reports on public policy issues in the
U.S. and around the world.
- HealthNewsReview.org:
A site dedicated to improving the accuracy of news stories about
medical treatments, tests and procedures.
- FrameWorks Institute:
The mission of the FrameWorks Institute is to advance the nonprofit
sector's communications capacity by identifying, translating and
modeling relevant scholarly research for framing the public discourse
about social problems.
- Rockridge Institute (framing):
The Rockridge Institute uses research in human cognition to help
progressives make arguments that make sense to their audience.
- Congresspedia.org
A wiki-based citizens’ encyclopedia on Congress hosted on
the Center for Media & Democracy’s SourceWatch wiki.
- Fedspending.org
– a project of
OMB Watch – combines data from the Federal Procurement Data System and
the Federal Assistance Award Data System to create a free, searchable
database of federal government contracting and spending.
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National Institute on Money in State Politics operates a
searchable database of all campaign contributions to political
campaigns at the state level.
- GovTrack.us
centralizes information on the legislative process
into a Web site
- LOUIS
– The Library of Unified
Information Sources – a project of the Sunlight Foundation – is a
search engine that combs through seven different sets of government
documents.
- MAPLight.org
provides a detailed analysis of legislation.
- OpenCongress.org
brings together official government data
with news and blog coverage to give you the real story behind each bill.
- Open
Community Document Review System
provides an online review process that enables people to review, tag,
comment on and rate the importance of
government documents received by CREW through FOI Act requests.
- Open CRS
is a project of the
Center for Democracy & Technology – aggregates Congressional
Research Service reports that have been released to the public.
- Open
Hearings is a mini-site
of schedules of current and future Senate committee hearings which
includes links to live audio and video of hearings in progress.
- OpenSecrets.org
is a project of the Center for Responsive Politics – is the premiere
source of data on money in national politics.
- The
Open Secrets Lobbying Database collects
information from lobbyist disclosure forms and provides it the user in
a number of searchable ways dating back to 1998.
- The Open
Secrets Personal Financial Disclosure Database has
information
from the personal financial disclosures filed by every member of
Congress and every executive branch official since 2005.
- The
Open Secrets Travel Database alllows you to see who is funding
travel by politicians and their staffs.
- Project
Vote Smart provides detailed information on politicans.
- Taxpayers
for Common Sense provides reports on pork barrel projects
- VoterWatch
combines C-SPAN
video of Congress with the accompanying text from the Congressional
Record to allow viewers to search the video for comments made by a
member of Congress.
- WashingtonWatch
determines the
average cost, or savings, per individual of each bill introduced in
Congress by performing calculations on government estimates compared to
the US population.
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