PopVox looks like it has the potential to become a fantastic site. But there is one glaring problem with it, there's too much noise -- bills for which the status is something like:
"This bill or resolution was assigned to a congressional committee on May 5, 2011, which will consider it before possibly sending it on to the House or Senate as a whole. The majority of bills never make it past this point."
If the majority of bills never make it past this point, it really should not belong on PopVox at all -- or maybe on some separate page that you can opt in to seeing (not simply opt out).
You have to realize that most people that visit your site will not have infinite time on their hands to browse through bills that will probably never even make it past the committee stage.
Focus your effort on those bills that have made it out of committee, and it will cut out the majority of noise on your site and make your site a hundred times more useful.
"This bill or resolution was assigned to a congressional committee on May 5, 2011, which will consider it before possibly sending it on to the House or Senate as a whole. The majority of bills never make it past this point."
If the majority of bills never make it past this point, it really should not belong on PopVox at all -- or maybe on some separate page that you can opt in to seeing (not simply opt out).
You have to realize that most people that visit your site will not have infinite time on their hands to browse through bills that will probably never even make it past the committee stage.
Focus your effort on those bills that have made it out of committee, and it will cut out the majority of noise on your site and make your site a hundred times more useful.