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How is what you're doing different from other groups like Sunlight Foundation or OpenCongress?

Interestingly enough it started out as a collaboration with Congressional Quarterly, which was an independent entity owned by the Times at the time. Later that relationship dissolved at least in part due to the appearance of impartiality. At the time of inception it was part of a strategy to gain a share in the expanding "tabloid" politics market which Politico had largely created IE engagement to sell ads over the less sexy in depth, objective policy analysis.