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QUESTION: Resources for connecting corporations to bills.

Submitted by Anonymooose on Sun, 11/20/2011 - 12:43pm
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Do you know of any tools or resources for connecting corporations to specific bills & legislation? This would be invaluable for campaigns & information. I'm interested to find answers about many bills on a state & national level.

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Answer posted by: jenna

I think FreeGovInfo pretty much nailed it. Open Secrets is all about tracking corporate influence and lobbying. Check out their Heavy Hitters list. I looked at #7, Goldman Sachs and clicked on the Lobbying tab:

See halfway down the page where they get to Bills Lobbied? That's hot, right?

#1Submitted by jenna on Mon, 11/21/2011 - 6:10pm.

via @freegovinfo: Off the top

via @freegovinfo: Off the top of my head there's @OpenSecretsDC and @OpenCongress for connecting corps and legislation.

#2Submitted by radref on Sun, 11/27/2011 - 6:21pm.

tracking bills and political influence

Besides Open Secrets, which is great for connecting corporate money to specific politicians, you should also check out GovTrack.us. That site provides a great way to search for and track on pending legislation and Congressional members. There are also some great tools created by the Sunlight Foundation. Check out Poligraft -- which lets you analyze news stories for the relationships between people, organizations and politicians -- Influence Explorer -- to see how a company, lawmaker or other prominent individual influences the political system -- and Transparency Data -- a central source for federal lobbying disclosure, federal grants and contracts, earmarks and federal and state campaign contributions.
#3Submitted by justking on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 5:07pm.

Maplight

I'm pretty late to the game on this, but www.maplight.org is also a great resource for this kind of thing.

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