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The websites below are links to non-partisan, independent,
and bi-partisan groups that evaluate public policy, verify facts, and advocate
political reform.
Find out who your federal and state
representatives are by using your zip code.
This site also compiles the voting records of state and federal
representatives, their policy positions, their endorsements and ratings by
hundreds of advocacy groups.
The Brookings Institute has multiple centers devoted to
various policy issues. Recently they
began monitoring the 2004 presidential campaigns, evaluating advertisements for
accuracy, and studying the costs of various programs advocated by each of the
major candidates.
Want to find out what the real impact of proposed tax
changes and current policies are on the national and local level? Visit the website for Citizens for Tax
Justice. Read well-researched
evaluations by experts in the area.
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Party and
candidate websites: In addition to the
bi-partisan and independently run websites, you can also find out what
candidates and parties advocate. Most
major parties and candidates have websites that explain their position on major
issues and outline their agendas for the future. A quick search on any major search engine like Google, Yahoo,
Infoseek can yield results in seconds.