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Visualizations : Net Cost of Bills Histogram : What exactly is behind this bimodal...

Creator: Martin Wattenberg
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Data file: Net Cost of House Bills Introduced in 109th Congress

Data source: National Taxpayers Union

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	Martin Wattenberg saved this snapshot Posted Tuesday July 31 2007, 06:22 PM see view for this comment
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	Martin Wattenberg says: What exactly is behind this bimodal distribution? It’s partly a democrat/republican split, but there are some democrats in the group at left. Posted Tuesday July 31 2007, 06:23 PM see view for this comment
	Martin Wattenberg says: Does this have to do with committee membership, maybe? Posted Tuesday July 31 2007, 06:25 PM see view for this comment
	DominicRupprecht says: The reason some Democrats are in the group on the left is because there is a pretty striking disparity in spending between freshman Democrats and their longer-serving counterparts. Posted Monday August 13 2007, 12:39 PM see view for this comment
	DominicRupprecht says: More data can be found here: http://www.ntu.org/main/press_papers.php?PressID=948&org_name=NTUF. Posted Monday August 13 2007, 12:45 PM see view for this comment

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