Liberty and Freedom

Keeping up with your Senators and Representatives:

Here are several websites (and email letters you can subscribe to) that have information on upcoming legislation being discussed as well as a record of the votes cast by members. Please check them out, or share with us other sites you have found useful.

State of Michigan

A free service of the Michigan Legislative Council, the Michigan House of Representatives, and the Michigan Senate. Use this to look up bills you are interested in learning more about.

http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(wquj42iuhg3pbnmq3vso5k55))/mileg.a...

This site also has an email update you can sign up for:

SOURCE: MichiganVotes.org, a free, non-partisan website created by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, providing concise, non-partisan, plain-English descriptions of every bill and vote in the Michigan House and Senate. Please visit http://www.MichiganVotes.org.

National

Project Vote Smart enter your zip code in the space at the top of the page and find information on all your politicians. http://www.votesmart.org/search.php?search=49046&x=8&y=6

or volunteer to be part of the organization and help them gather information

http://www.votesmart.org/index.htm

THOMAS In the spirit of Thomas Jefferson, legislative information from the Library of Congress

http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.php

Roll Call

http://www.rollcall.com/

Enter your congressman’s name in the search and reach contact information on him

http://www.rollcall.com/members/

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Permalink Reply by Pioneer Girl on November 19, 2011 at 12:58pm

Upcoming Legislative Coffees are a good way to meet your politicians face to face and hear them talk about current legislative activity. You can tell them what you think about it too.