There are various sites designed to help citizens track
transparency within the United States government. Some are
created by U.S. government agencies and others are individually
maintained. Listed below are some of these sites. On this site,
a project of the Participatory Politics Foundation and the
Sunlight Foundation, you can find recent votes from the House
and Senate and current bills, and issues. You can search for
issues by clicking on the Issues link at the top of the page,
then enter a keyword in the search box or scroll down on the
Topics menu to find a particular issue. To find out how members
of Congress voted on particular bills, click on Votes at the top
of the page and then click on the bill. This site, created by
Civic Impulse LLC also allows you to track representatives in
Congress and to research pending legislation. You can browse by
Members of Congress, Bills and Resolutions (from 1979 to the
present), Voting Records (from 1789 to the present), and
Congressional Committees. This site is de