@inproceedings{238e34ae04244e77a8da1ccf58639711,
title = "Congressional close up: Automatically exploring anomalous voting behavior in the U.S. Congress",
abstract = "The United States Senate has become increasingly partisan through the years; in fact it is quite unusual for a Senator to vote against his or her party. The Congressional Close Up system automatically reports on factors that might have influenced a bipartisan vote. The system begins by assigning a topic to the legislation on which a Senate or House vote was focused. The system then uses this assigned topic to find possible influences which might have changed a Senator's vote. These influences are campaign contributions, effects on local industries and general pressure from the Senator's constituency. The system concludes by generating a report in HTML format.",
author = "Lisa Gandy and Hammond, {Kristian J}",
year = "2013",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9780989319300",
series = "Proceedings of 2013 Science and Information Conference, SAI 2013",
pages = "61--67",
booktitle = "Proceedings of 2013 Science and Information Conference, SAI 2013",
note = "2013 Science and Information Conference, SAI 2013 ; Conference date: 07-10-2013 Through 09-10-2013",
}