Using Web 2.0 to Track Congressional Response to Iqbal

Yesterday's post regarding the hearings on Iqbal and Twombly was prompted by an alert from a feed set up on OpenCongress.org to track S. 1504.   Last week's Senate hearings regarding the impact of Iqbal and Twombly (see posts here and here) were held in aid of the Notice Pleading Restoration Act of 2009 sponsored by Senator Specter, i.e., S. 1504.  The pending bill is reproduced here on the GPO website in PDF. The bill is mentioned in Senator Feingold's opening statement.

There are several new ways to use Web 2.0 applications to track pending bills in Congress. You might be interested in using GovTrack.us or OpenCongress.org. Both allow for the free tracking of individual bills. You can see previous posts about these Web 2.0 tools here and here and at Peggy Garvin's excellent recap here. And, don't forget about Thomas.  Although it does not yet provide a feed for actions on individual bills, it does provide,inter alia, a feed for a daily digest and for Senate and House floor action.