BuyCongress app for iPhone and iPad

Uncover the influence money has on your civil servants by drawing connections between representatives and the organizations that donate to them.

With the BuyCongress app:
• Discover financial ties between politicians and organizations
• View representatives top donors by individual, industry, and sector
• Find your representatives by your current location or zip code
• Browse through all representatives currently holding office

With the Influence Explorer app extension:
• Scan news articles from within Safari for organizations and politicians
• See how much money was donated between the found organizations and representatives
• View the top contributing industries of each politician

Special thanks to the Sunlight Foundation for not only inspiring this app with one of their own, Poligraft, but also making this all possible through the use of their phenomenal APIs.

Attributions:
• Flatwork color palette created by ghepting at http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/2840713/Flatwork
• Federal campaign contribution records provided by OpenSecrets.org
• State campaign contribution records provided by FollowTheMoney.com
• Politician and organization data is accessed through the Sunlight Foundations Influence Explorer and Transparency Data APIs
• Photos of members of Congress are from the Government Printing Office and are public domain
• The source code of this application is open source and available at https://github.com/ateich/BuyCongress