TownHall Puts Congress At Your Fingertips

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Jennifer Van Grove
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TownHall Puts Congress At Your Fingertips
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And now there's one more mobile addition to the group. From the Brainjuice team, who also brought you the bad ass blog editor Blogo, comes a new 99 cent iPhone app to keep you educated on current and former members of Congress.

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Similar in purpose to WhoRunsGov (from the WashingtonPost), TownHall pulls data from the New York Times Congress and GovTrack APIs, and links that info with an individual's official site, related Google News items, Wikipedia entry, watchdog sites, and Twitter mentions - all of which you can view within the app. Essentially TownHall aims to give you the complete picture of your representative.

There are a few oddities. Either everyone currently listed within the database is a PA representative, or something is a little off in how the app is processing API data. I also didn't like the fact if you want to find a former member of Congress, you need to know what years they served in office and locate that time period in the Archives before you can search for the person in question.

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