Congressional Energy Votes Available Online

[Michael Grynberg <grynberg@Citizen.ORG>]

  CONGRESSIONAL ENERGY VOTES AVAILABLE ONLINE
  
  Voters who want to hold Members of Congress accountable on
  questions of safe and sustainable energy policy may be interested
  in a new feature of the Critical Mass web site
  (http://www.essential.org/CMEP).  A voting index (located in the
  Resources section of the home page) contains a record of how each
  Member of Congress voted on a variety of energy policy questions
  in recent years. 
  
  In addition to learning how their Representative or Senator voted
  on specific issues like renewable energy and efficiency funding,
  radioactive waste policy, and nuclear power programs, visitors
  can use the page to find information on contacting their
  congressional representatives and send email directly to
  Representatives and Senators who are on the Internet.
  
  The vote index is not a comprehensive list of every vote with an
  impact on the nation's energy policy.  Rather, recorded votes
  were selected as indicators of where Members of Congress stand on
  specific questions.  Thus a budget reconciliation bill that
  contains a BTU tax as one of many provisions is not on the page,
  while a procedural motion that pertains strictly to the survival
  of a wasteful reactor program is.
  
  The voting index is viewed most quickly with a text-based browser
  like lynx.  Users with modems slower than 14400 bps are advised
  that the longest data file in the page's House section is just
  over 100K.
  
  For more information, contact Michael Grynberg at
  grynberg@citizen.org.
  
  Michael Grynberg 
  Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy Project
  215 Pennsylvania Ave., SE
  Washington, D.C. 20003
  Internet: grynberg@citizen.org