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Montana laptop lawmakers log on, blog on. Do you know how to find your Legislators’ websites and blogs or watch the 2007 session on live streaming video?

There’s a new background noise in the Legislature, a tip-tapping backbeat beneath the crack of the gavel and the chime of the electronic vote board.

More lawmakers are working on laptops during House and Senate sessions. They’re e-mailing their constituents, looking online at bill drafts that once consumed reams of paper, and possibly even sneaking a quick peek at stock tables, the sports page, or even their own Web sites.

Nearly every lawmaker lists an e-mail address with his or her profile on the Legislature’s Web site (http://www.leg.mt.gov). It’s a transformation from even a decade or so ago.

By GWEN FLORIO
Tribune Capitol Bureau

Full Story: http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070114/NEWS01/701140304

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MATR is pleased to offer a single URL for any and all legislative websites and blogs so more in Montana will be able to find them easier and converse with their elected leaders.

2007 Montana State Legislature & Live Streaming Video Link for the Session http://www.matr.net/companies.phtml?cat=42

If you know of other sites or blogs by Montana State Legislators, please let the legislator know about this site or send their URL to [email protected] and we’ll load them and promote the site in our twice weekly newsletters. You can subscribe for it here: http://www.matr.net/newsletter.phtml

Thank you.

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