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  • Don't Read Their Lips: Website Ranks Lawmakers' Words

    12/14/2011 9:35:48 AM PST · by WOBBLY BOB
    KSTP news ^ | 12-13-11 | Mark Albert
    It's a database of words that no lawmaker can talk their way out of. "We just want lawmakers to be a little bit more transparent and accountable," said Tom Lee, with the non-profit Washington, D.C. organization the Sunlight Foundation. On Monday, it announced a retooled and beefed up website, capitolwords.org, that tracks every word uttered on the floor of the U.S. House and Senate, going back 15 years. "It's not only something that's fun," Lee said, "but it's also a serious tool. It can be used to show deliberate ways in which language is used to manipulate the public.