$850 Billion, 1588 pages, and counting... somebody needs to read it!

Final Version

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Passed in House on 2/13 246-183
roll-call vote
 YesNo
Democrats2467
Republicans0176

Passed in Senate on 2/13 60-38
roll-call vote
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Democrats570
Republicans338

Senate "Compromise" (2/7)

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1/23 Senate Tax Staff Sum. » PDF | TXT
1/23 Senate Tax Prov Anal. » PDF | TXT
1/23 Senate Chairman's Mark Tax » PDF | TXT
1/23 Senate Chairman's Mark Health» PDF | TXT











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Welcome to ReadTheStimulus.org !

Welcome to ReadTheStimulus.org !

We have all heard words of an era of increased transparency. With nearly a trillion dollars under debate in the proposed stimulus package, such transparency would be most useful right now: before we as a nation make irrevocable decisions about how to deal with the economic crisis that we face together.

Unfortunately, Congress remains mired in old procedures and processes, and almost seems to go out of its way to make it difficult for citizens to be able to read and understand legislation as it makes its way through the process of becoming law. The web makes great things possible: if it chose, Congress could easily make fully searchable, web-friendly versions of pending legislation available for citizens to comment upon.

But, it has not. And since nothing official along these lines has been forthcoming for the stimulus bill, this site aims to fill that gap, and make available as much information as possible about this critical legislation. With support from our partner organizations (see the left sidebar), we are presenting the various documents which together make up the stimulus bill in searchable format. Browse through a document of your choice, or use the search function to drill down to the topics that interest you most. And on any page of any document, you can contribute your own comments and thoughts --- and read those by fellow citizens.

A key feature of the site that we hope will see wide use is the ability for bloggers or any other online publishers to link directly to an individual page of the bill text. The format is simple:

http://readthestimulus.org/index.php?doc=docversion&page=pagenumber

docversion is the particular document and version you want to link to.

So to link to Page 25 of the 1/15/09 House Democrat's stimulus bill text, you would use:

http://readthestimulus.org/index.php?doc=housedem0115&page=25

The site is a work in progress, so please bear with us as we add features and functionality. Feedback is welcome; please send email to .