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Legislation Info Providers Required Data Advocacy Groups Advocacy or Special Interest

A key component of our Report Cards is the information about legislation considered by the U.S. Congress. We obtain this information from two types of sources.

There is a large number of advocacy groups (a.k.a. special interest groups) with varied viewpoints and interests that analyze federal legislation. We will include in our Report Cards information on legislation from any advocacy group (large, small, new, or established) as long as we can obtain certain required information from the group.

Current list of "legislation info providers"

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[New feature] In order to offer even greater variety of opinions on legislation, we will now also consider for publication in the Report Cards the information on legislation from any source, including individuals. If you know anything that could/should be of interest to the voters about any piece of legislation considered by Congress and are interested in having this information published in our Report Cards, please contact us to discuss this in more detail.

Here are the high-level steps and requirements for having information from a "legislative info provider" included in the Report Cards:

Any information we publish must meet our "editorial guidelines", which include compatibility with the goals of VIS.
All "legislative info providers" must make publicly available a summary of their legislative focus either on their web site or as a page on our site.
All required information must be supplied to VIS, preferably as the XML output file generated by our Position Report tool.

"Legislative info providers" are not charged any fees for having their information published in the Report Cards. In the future, we hope to be able to share a portion of any revenue (donations, user and advertising fees, etc.) generated by the Report Cards with our "legislative info providers" as a compensation for their legislative research that makes the Report Cards possible.