Your Congressional Reps -- With RSS Feeds!

Hey! Plogress ( http://www.plogress.com ) was designed "to provide current information on what our representatives are doing in Congress!" (from the site -- that the US Congress.) It's updated every morning and comes with RSS feeds (it was built in WordPress.)

To start pick your state from the list on the right. I picked New Mexico. From there I got a list of the two Senators and the three Representatives. Picking Tom Udall takes me to a page of bills -- last one dated May 11 -- that this Rep has sponsored, or co-sponsored.

You might have a bit of a problem finding the RSS feed for the individual pages -- it's down at the bottom of the page in the footer. I think I'd make it a bit more prevalent. Further, While the blurbs for the different house resolutions are okay, I find myself wanting more information. Take H.R.1814, which on Plogress is described as "To allow travel between the United States and Cuba." A quick Google search for "hr 1814" 2005 site:house.gov brings relevant results. Further, examining a bill summary URL -- http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:hr1814: -- shows that the HR number is embedded in the URL. I don't know too much about WordPress, but would there be any way to make the HR number a keyword of your entry, and then create a Thomas.Loc.Gov URL for each HR that's mentioned on the site?

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