Following the Money Trail Online
The first step to solving a problem is recognizing that you have one.
That's what I keep telling myself, anyway, to avoid becoming depressed by Maplight.org.
It's a new Web site with a very simple mission: to correlate lawmakers' voting records with the money they've accepted from special-interest groups.
All of this is public information. All of it has been available for decades. Other sites, including OpenSecrets.org, expose ...
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