Want to know which bills your representatives in Congress have sponsored and cosponsored? Simply find their pages in this state-by-state listing and scroll down to see the bills they’re involved with. The new “Representatives” section of WashingtonWatch.com allows you to see more of what’s happening in Washington, D.C. In addition to looking over representation by [...]
The new 113th Congress began on January 3rd, the 112th having adjourned for the final time on January 2nd. That means that all the bills pending in the 112th Congress are dead. A raft of new bills has already been introduced. You can tell the Congress in which a bill was proposed by looking in [...]
Wouldn’t you like to know what laws Congress has passed? Well, now there’s a place to see them! The “New Laws” link on the “Bills” tab at the homepage. The bills are listed in order of their interest to you. The pages with the most activity are at the top. Hopefully, this information improves your [...]
We’re delighted today to announce the roll-out of a new feature on WashingtonWatch.com—actually, two new features. Both are designed to inform you better about what’s going on in Washington, D.C. First, we’re adding lots of new cost data for the bills in Congress. The folks at the National Taxpayers Union Foundation do cost estimates for [...]
The “cost” information we display with bills is a product of taking spending numbers and boiling them down through a “net present value” calculation. That’s essentially the amount you’d have to put in the bank today to fund spending in the future. Thanks to the miracle of compound interest, future spending is cheaper—$100 in spending [...]
Well, we’ve made a fine mess of things. At least two different mistakes have some of our users rightly frustrated. At the end of every Congress, the bills that were introduced in that Congress die. And at the end of each Congress, we “mothball” those bills, so that the new bills get the attention they [...]
If you’re paying close attention, you still see thousands of bills from the recently past 111th Congress here on WashingtonWatch.com. Well, we’re leaving them there for the time being so that conversations on some of the bills can continue. Before too long, we’ll mothball those pages, which will cut off commenting, voting, and such (though [...]
The latest news has Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) making progress in her fight to survive and overcome the injuries she sustained when a gunman attacked a community meeting she convened last weekend. (The New York Daily News story at the link above also has a chilling string of 9-11 calls—it’s a little too much for [...]
We’ve just added a new advertising network (Amazon), and it’s a good time to talk about advertising and privacy. In the right column of the site, we have ads, and occasionally sponsored information. Right now we’re running Google and Amazon ads, though we’ll rotate through ad networks from time to time. We keep ads segregated [...]
Here’s a fair criticism of this week’s newsletter from a subscriber: I’m puzzled by your classification of the “Homebuyer Assistance and Improvement Act of 2010” as a savings per household. It strikes me that unlike spending bills where the cost is spread among all taxpayers, bills that provide money back to taxpayers in the form [...]