Legislative Data & Transparency —> Powerful Apps.

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Legislative Data & Transparency —> Powerful Apps

Apps help congress do its job =

Capitol Bells has over 15,000 mobile users Including Members of Congress, congressional staff, lobbyists, and reporters

Transparency helps the public make sense of Congress

Capitol Bells has connected over 20,000 constituents to legislative data from the Sunlight Foundation’s Congress API on the web

More Data —> More Powerful Apps

C-SPAN vote tallies Closed Captioning Amendment series Committee data Let’s open…

A Digital & Interactive Congress The result?

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