Beta Testing With Members Of Congress To Speed Up Our Glacial Government

Inspired by the anti-SOPA backlash, a former congressional staffer built an app that aims to open up the sausage-making process, and he's got four real live legislators trying it.

Ted Henderson knows the inefficiencies of Capitol Hill all too well. But after seeing how technology can impact democracy, the former Congressional staffer set out to build an app that would change the relationship between representatives and their constituents. It's a badly needed disruption of old-school pagers as the Hill's information pipeline--and it just might work.

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