"Quello che e' stato denunciato qui, qualora venga verificato, lo troverei deplorevole"
(on. Fausto Bertinotti, presidente della Camera, a proposito delle polemiche sul sito tenuto dal ministro Di Pietro, nel quale, secondo Leone di Fi, si troverebbe come si sono espressi i deputati sull'indulto, Ansa, Roma, 27 luglio 2006)
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www.govtrack.us e' un sito per reperire tempestivamente informazioni sull'attivita' del Congresso. Il sito si differenzia dagli altri dedicati all'attivita' del Congresso non solo per la sua indipendenza, ma anche per la sua originalita'. GovTrack spedisce messaggi e-mail ai propri utenti ogniqualvolta si discuta una legge che essi desiderano seguire attentamente. GovTrack permette anche di seguire l'attivita' dei singoli deputati. Il sito trae le informazioni dal sito del Congresso, e dai siti ufficiali della Camera dei Rappresentanti e del Senato"
(tratto da "How Did They Vote? Updates by E-Mail of Congressional Ayes and Nays", by DANIEL TERDIMAN, THE NEW YORK TIMES, January 27, 2005)
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How Did They Vote? Updates by E-Mail of Congressional Ayes and Nays
By DANIEL TERDIMAN
Published: January 27, 2005
Joshua Tauberer isn't a stereotypical techie with a degree in computer science or engineering. Yet Mr. Tauberer, a 22-year-old doctoral student in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, is the brains behind GovTrack (www.govtrack.us), a site for up-to-the-minute information about Congress.
GovTrack differentiates itself from other sites devoted to Congress both by being free and by being fresh: it sends users e-mail updates anytime there's activity on legislation they want to monitor.
GovTrack lets users track activity of specific legislators. It can also send updates via RSS, or Real Simple Syndication. The site collects information from Thomas (thomas.loc.gov), the Library of Congress's legislation-tracking site, and the official sites of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Mr. Tauberer, a self-taught Web programmer, came up with the idea for GovTrack as a freshman psychology major at Princeton, where he became interested in copyright law. Daniel Terdiman