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Chapter Thirteen: Interest Groups
Some interest groups evaluate how well the voting of individual
members of Congress fits with liberal or conservative ideology. You can now access these
ratings online:
If you're reading this now, you're probably a student (or maybe just really,
really bored). If so, there are lots of interest groups that claim to speak for
your interests. Check them out and see who is representing you and what they're
saying:
Google's
directory of lobbying sites, Yahoo!'s
list of PACs, the Federal Election Commission's "Pacronym"
list, opensecrets.org's searchable
index of lobbyists, and ActivistCash,
which claims to ferret out the funding sources of many obscure groups.
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