"OpenCongress brings together official government information with news and blog coverage to give you the real story behind what's happening in Congress...OpenCongress is a free, open-source, non-profit, and non-partisan web resource with a mission to help make Congress more transparent and to encourage civic engagement." Major elements of OpenCongress include:

• Official information from Thomas, the website of the Library of Congress, made available by GovTrack.us: all the bills, Members of Congress, votes, committee reports, issue areas, and more.
• News articles about Congress from Google News.
• Blog posts about Congress from Technorati and Google Blog Search.
• Campaign contribution information from OpenSecrets.org, the website of the non-profit, non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics.