On March 28 , 2007 , Texas ’ Republican rep K. Conaway read LOL . It ’s the one and only clip . Thanks to theSunlight Foundation’snewCapitol Wordstool , you could search everything Congress has said since ’ 96 . get ’s have fun .
Capitol countersign is incredibly deep , offering wonderfully organized snapshot of a Holy Scripture ( or musical phrase ) , break down by time , absolute frequency , political party , and even the exact moment of speech in which it was used . Any variety of trend frequence like this is groovy , but when it ’s our country ’s lawmakers , it ’s of particular note of hand . So what ’s been on their tech agenda over the year ?
Internet porn ? A handful of times , but only by Republicans .
The cyberspace itself ? let out constantly since ’ 96 , of course , and split evenly between parties , though Sen. Patrick J. Leahy dominates the treatment , as a perennially tech - orient senator .
Republicans get it on to talk about the iPhone .
And lasers .
Democrats love to spill about final neutrality .
And of course , Apple versus Mac .
This tool has a lot of serious , powerful uses for political analysis . But for now , go ahead and get into member . You know you ’re going to anyway . [ Sunlight Foundation ]
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