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More From the Floor

Back in March I saw that Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont had his staff playing around with Radio to keep track of happenings on the Senate floor. Now it appears that it is a full-fledged feature of Leahy’s site, and a highly useful one for Senate-watchers at that. Not only is it updated frequently but it also links to proposed amendments being debated and voted on. While it is written by a Democratic staffer, the descriptions aren’t particularly partisan and thus MFTF could be an excellent guide to people wanting to learn more about the way the Senate works – and believe me, the more people who understand how that place works, the better. Of course, there’s an RSS feed, which is how I monitor it.