As far as I can tell – Bleeding Heartland is off to a great start. A big thank you goes out to Drew & Chris and anyone else who contributed to getting this off the ground.
Many of the ‘national’ community blogs (i.e. Daily Kos, MyDD…etc) have thriving “meta” discussions and collections of link resources.
In the interest of facilitating informed blogging about the Iowa Legislature I thought I would post some helpful links to resources available for bloggers…
This is a great place to start…bill tracking resources, links to fiscal agency information, etc…
Great resource for tracking the fiscal impact of health care and tax/budget proposals. Committee information for Ways & Means and other committees
The “FactBook” is a great tool for understanding the budgets of the different agencies impacted by the state budget.
This link takes you to the various “live feeds” of House/Senate debate. You can listen to the legislature, track the debate calendar, etc…great resource for “live blogging”
This is by no means an exhaustive list of resources, but consider this an open thread for posting information about research resources you like to use.
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There are
a number of different ways to do this, Ben.
First, you can go to the Track Legislation page on the legislative website. There are a number of ways to track legislation from that page.
You can track by sponsor or floor manager by clicking here.
mark-langgin Mon 29 Jan 12:45 PM
There are
a number of different ways to do this, Ben.
First, you can go to the Track Legislation page on the legislative website. There are a number of ways to track legislation from that page.
You can track by sponsor or floor manager by clicking here.
mark-langgin Mon 29 Jan 12:46 PM
dKosopedia articles
Hi there, the DailyKos blog has a wikipedia attached to it, and it has some biographical coverage of Iowa legislators, and decent coverage of the 2006 elections. Try:
Iowa State House
or
Iowa State Senate
corncam Tue 30 Jan 10:38 AM