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There is more than one political junkie on the Switched staff, and the lot of us get pretty excited whenever we see a cool app that makes it easier to keep on top of the happenings in Washington. iPhone owners already have a host of options for tracking Congress, but, until now, Android users have been largely left in a lurch. Thanks to the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to government transparency, that has changed.
The simply entitled 'Congress' app puts almost any information you could possibly desire at your fingertips, delivering your representative's contact information, voting record and Twitter handle. While you can manually search for a particular congressperson from the home screen, you can also set the app to pull up your district's elected rep using GPS.
The quick access to news stories, updates and pending legislation is greatly appreciated, as is the price: free. Remarkably, this mobile app brings together those disparate buzzwords, like "open source" and "open data" (which means available directly from the government), and for a tool that appeals to an audience beyond tech nerds. You can download 'Congress' from the Android Market by searching for it, or scan the QR code on the right. [From: ReadWriteWeb]
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