How to find what you are looking for – constructing a search on BillTrack50 by Karen Suhaka.
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Building a search on BillTrack50 is fairly straightforward, however it isn’t exactly like doing a Google search. So there’s a few things you need to keep in mind, which I’ll explain in this post. There’s also a few tips and tricks advanced users might find useful. Any bills that are introduced later and meet your search terms will be automatically added to your bill sheet (if you made a bill sheet).
Tracking “thumb on the scale” (TOTS) at the state level? BillTrack50 is a great starting point.
BillTrack50 provides surface facts, to which you can add vote trading, influence peddling and other routine legislative activities.