“Here’s an area for both some disruption and some lobbying. Let’s build tools that allow members of Congress to aggregate messages being sent to them, and to associate those messages with congressional districts. Let’s come up with a way for a member to see what their constituency is saying about any particular issue they’d like, and let’s provide that as an open service so that anybody can see what a particular constituency is saying. That way, when a member has a track record of voting against the desires of a substantial portion of his or her district, we’ve got a record of it, and it can get brought up in the next election.” - Clay Johnson

  1. spurpura said: That was almost a verbatim recommendation from Harvard master’s thesis that was entered into Congressional testimony as part of the Congressional Management Foundation’s nonpartisan advice for administering Congress.
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