Poligraft Brings Politics and Influences Together in Just One Click

Poligraft is a tool that allows anyone to uncover levels of influence in Congressional politics and the news coverage of it. Using data from Sunlight's TransparencyData.com and the upcoming Influence Explorer, Poligraft allows you to connect the dots between money and politics in Congress. Simply paste the URL or text of a news article, blog post or press release and Poligraft will create an enhanced view of the people, organizations and relationships described within it.


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AUDIO

Artist: Lanark
Track: "Pacto de silencio"
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lanark/Ovnis_a_Mogollon/csr039_lanark_02_pa...

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News & Politics

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• poligraft
• sunlight foundation
• influence
• campaign
• contributions
• pac
• political
• action
• transaprency
• gov20
• open gov

[voteash]

Could someone explain how the Environmental Protection Agency "aggregates" campaign contributions? I'm pretty sure if that were true, some folks would be going to jail given that EPA is a public agency.

[SunlightFoundation]

@voteash It's an aggregation of the personal contributions of those working for the EPA.

Once on Poligraft, we explain this thusly:

Represents total campaign contributions from an organization's employees and/or its PAC.

[SunlightFoundation]

@voteash Great question! It's an aggregation of the personal contributions of those working for the EPA.

Once on Poligraft, we explain this thusly:

Represents total campaign contributions from an organization's employees and/or its PAC.

[hingeloose]

Love this! Thanks!