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Something really good has come out of Berkeley that conservatives and liberals can applaud. It’s MapLight.org, an Internet-based nonprofit organization that makes it possible for interested folks to find out more about votes and money in Congress than ever before. Quite simply, what MapLight.org has done is create a mash-up that enables simultaneous searches of databases of contributions to senators and congressmen and databases of their voting records. This makes it possible for citizens to see the relationship in time, if any, between the contributions received by their senators and representatives from special interests and how they voted on issues of concern to those special interests. MapLight.org is thus, in the words of Wired.com, one of the many emerging Internet-based tools that “turn citizens into Washington watchdogs.”

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