Find Out Who Is Sponsoring American Legislators using Influence-Tracker Tool [Wired]

This neat little website allows you to select an American legislator and then shows you who is their biggest sponsors by branding them with the company's/foundation's logo. I did it for John McCain, and found out he's received over $18 million dollars, more than any other Senator.

I think that it will be interesting to use this tool whenever a news story about American politicians comes up. When I became aware of Senators or Congressmen issuing opinions on Latin America, I plan on checking who their sponsors are and what relation this appears to have on their policies.

Here is the link: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/influence-tracker/