Our Congress can Tweet

On 10.07.08, In Ramblings, by blantonious

Good news! Thanks to your help, the House and Senate recently
updated the guidelines that govern how members of Congress can
use the Internet to communicate with us about their work.

The new rules now allow members of Congress to interact with us on
sites such as Twitter, YouTube and Flickr. Sunlight advocated for
these rules changes through our bipartisan collaborative effort;
the Open House Project — http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/ — and
through our popular Let Our Congress Tweet campaign, the first
Twitter-based petition to Congress. Thanks to the hundreds of you
who joined our call for change!

To show our gratitude, we’ve created Capitol Tweets at
http://sunlightfoundation.com/CAPITOLTWEETS/. This widget, which
you can embed on your site, lets you follow the latest tweets from
members of Congress who use Twitter.

Get the code to embed the Capitol Tweets widget here:

http://sunlightfoundation.com/capitoltweets/

While you’re at it, be sure to check out PC Magazine’s list of the
“5 sites That Will Boost your Political Knowledge”

http://tinyurl.com/pcworld5sites

You might recognize a few Sunlight friends such OpenSecrets.org,
OpenCongress.org and FedSpending.org, who do great work to bring
more transparency to work of our federal government.