No such thing as information.

[unbibium]

Every so often, I hear some talking head on TV talk about how Congress, as a unit, voted that kittens should be put in blenders in front of starving children, and then turned around and voted that Scandinavian prostitutes should be flown in to give daily blow jobs to CEOs of major corporations.

But they never tell us which bills these are, for one, so the whole argument comes down to "They're EVIL!" "No they're not!"

Next time I hear about some tax bill, I wish the cable company would display a small caption on the bottom of the screen that tells me whether my congressmen voted on it. Like how they display local temperatures on the Weather Channel.

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[cheryln.livejournal.com]

You can get some of this at Thomas, but I've found that trying to search on a keyword is a pain. And if what really made the news was something procedural--say, a vote not to vote--it's even trickier to figure out.

Alternatively, maybe your newspaper reports this stuff, the way mine does, once a week around page A23.

[vyus.livejournal.com]

i had thought i'd seen yahoo begin to record "voting records" that they link to after mentioning a congressman's name in an article for the first time.

on another front, that's actually a psychological disorder... seeing things as either completely good or completely bad.