Media Availability -- Webby Nominee YourCongress.com Founder and CEO of Irreverent, Revolutionary Site in San Francisco for Webby Awards

Arlington, VA -- Christopher Porter, Founder and CEO of YourCongress.com, the Webby Award nominee in the Government and Law category, will be in the Bay Area and available for media opportunities on Tuesday, July 17, through Thursday, July 19.

NEWS FROM YOURCONGRESS.COM
July 17, 2001
Contact: John Lacey
Toll-Free: 202-256-5311

Arlington, VA -- Christopher Porter, Founder and CEO of YourCongress.com, the Webby Award nominee in the Government and Law category, will be in the Bay Area and available for media opportunities on Tuesday, July 17, through Thursday, July 19.

In 1999, Porter left a 10-year career on Capitol Hill to launch YourCongress.com with the goal of providing everyone -- especially people who fell asleep in social studies class" - an easy and entertaining way to find out whats going on in Congress. YourCongress combines basic information about Congress, fun interactive tools, and a peek behind-the-scenes -- all with writing in plain English and an irreverent slant.

Visitors can also subscribe to the amazing free Congress-tracking service which emails you complete, unedited, personalized information direct from the Congressional Record within 24 hours of when a persons Congressman/woman or Senators do anything on the floor of Congress. The free YourCongress.Watch Tracking Service has been hailed as a truly revolutionary tool that uses the power of the internet to break down barriers between people and their Congress.

Porter is available to discuss how YourCongress.com is changing the way business is done in Congress, the evolution of the political dot com, or any current Congressional or political topic.

Who: Christopher Porter, Founder and CEO, Webby Award-nominee YourCongress.com
What: Media Availability
Where: San Francisco
Contact: John Lacey at 202-256-5311 or john@yourcongress.com, or Christopher Porter at 703-786-0001

YourCongress.com was launched in March of 2000 and has fast become the premier site for information about Congress. For more information on YourCongress.com and its exciting services - including the revolutionary FREE YourCongress.Watch Tracking Service - or to speak with founder and CEO Christopher Porter, call John Lacey at (toll-free) 877-282-8170 or email john@yourcongress.com. Chris can also be reached in San Francisco on his cell at 703-786-0001.

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