Below are a list of pages that contain contact information, as well as a selection of links that will offer you interesting information as to how your money is being spent. This list is also available from the navigation bar under “The World”

Federal Representaive Contacts
Contact your senator or congress-person

State Politician Contacts
Contact your NJ State politicians

Congressional Votes
See how your representatives are voting

Politic Updates
News feeds from various “watchdog” sources.

Federal Earmarks
A list of links that will show you federal projects with federal dollars.

FedSpending.org
Click on grants or contracts and navigate to your state and district to follow the federal money.

OpenSecrets.org
A project of the Center for Responsive Politics – is the premiere source of data on money in national politics. OpenSecrets.org provides a searchable database for the campaign finance data of all federally elected politicians since 1989.

MAPLight.org
Provides a detailed analysis of legislation by tracking bills, the support and opposition bills garner from interest groups and the campaign contributions given by those interest groups to members of Congress and for the state of California. The site lets users tracks the day by day, vote by vote, impact of political contributions at the federal level.

Taxpayers for Common Sense
Taxpayers for Common Sense provides reports on pork barrel projects and earmarks in Congress analyzing bills in real-time and providing databases of information. Its mission is to reduce wasteful government spending.

Divided We Fail
AARP project finding bi-partisan solutions to ensure affordable, quality health care and long-term financial security – for all of us

Fact Check
Nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics.