Nifty tools to keep tabs on YOUR lawmakers now available

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Two new tools are out this week to help you keep better track of the people who spend your tax dollars.

The Center for Public Integrity is now posting personal financial disclosure statements of state lawmakers, and they go back to 2000 for lawmakers who have been around that long.

Go here to check out your lawmaker of choice. Then look for the "Legislator Personal Financial Disclosures" link.

Beginning Tuesday, the Center for Responsive Politics is making available congressional personal financial disclosure statements as well as a second database on junkets members take.

Go here, beginning tomorrow, to take a peek.

Posted by Steve Kraske

(If the embedded links above don't work, here is the first one: http://www.publicintegrity.org/iys/ and here is the second one: http://www.opensecrets.org/)