Be a Government Watchdog with RSS and Atom

Keeping track of what our elected officials are up to has historically required more dilligence than most people care to employ. Syndication to the rescue! GovTrack is a site that lets you monitor US government activity on hundreds of legislation topics using email or RSS and Atom feeds.

For example, you can get updates on legislation regarding capital punishment, in an Atom feed. Maybe this RSS 1.0 feed covering all activity on immigration reform is more to your liking. Fellow Coloradans could use RSS 2.0 to monitor the voting record of Colorado Republican Wayne Allard.

Power to the people, XML-style.

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