What you told Congress in 2011: Top 50 Bills

The Defense Authorization Bill, S. 1867, generated a lot of buzz last week. The bill passed the Senate and now heads to conference with the House (merging with H.R. 1540). The resulting conferenced bill will go back to both the House and Senate for a vote.

You can weigh in and send a message to Congress with the links below.

S. 1867: https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/s1867

HR. 1540: https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr1540

**Note: POPVOX is neutral. Sharing a bill does not indicate endorsement.

SENTIMENT ON PIPA (S.968 PROTECT IP Act)

We’re experimenting with sharing visuals from POPVOX. Please let me know what you think about sharing maps like this on Tumblr. What else would you like to see?

To add your voice and send a message to Congress about this bill, follow this link:

BTW - we chose this bill because it was trending. Posting a bill is not an endorsement.

Creating a Legislative Action Center on YOUR Website

I am again taking advantage of the great Tumblr interface to test out POPVOX widgets and provide an example of how to leverage free tools for an advocacy campaign.

Yesterday, Judiciary Chairman, Lamar Smith, introduced the House version (H.R. 3261) of the Senate’s PROTECT IP Act. (As of this morning, official language was not available from GPO, but is here on the Judiciary Committee website.)

With POPVOX, you can embed widgets onto your blog to help people contact Congress about the bill — whether you support or oppose or just want to help people weigh in.

A button to send people to the POPVOX page for the bill:

(Find code on any bill page under the tab “add POPVOX to your site.”)

A form to help people send a message to Congress without leaving your site (you can choose to display supporting, opposing, or all):

(Find code on the POPVOX widget page/p.)

And, when comments start to come in, a live stream (you can choose to display supporting, opposing, or all)

(Find code on the POPVOX widget page.)