It's some pretty basic data crunching, but it's a start. This week, Organizing for America is matching up (a) the names of those Republican members of Congress who voted against the House's health care packaged with (b) the congressional districts that voted for President Barack Obama in '08 and (c) the names of folks on their multi-million member email list who happen to live in the resulting 32 districts, which stretch from Rep. Frank A. LoBiondo's south Jersey district to Rep. Mary Bono Mack's southern California one. Those OFAers are being asked to point out to their elected Republican representatives that their "no" votes on health care are out of step with how their constituents voted in the last presidential election. Members of Congress who vote in favor of the legislative package, on the other hand, are being targeted by an Organizing for America "Thank You" drive.

(Of course, the 32 districts at the focus of OFA's new accountability push also happened to vote into office those ornery nay-voting Republican members of Congress at the very same moment last election day that they pulled the lever for Obama. But that, for obvious reasons, didn't make it into the OFA email.)

"This is not about confrontation," reads the email. "It’s simply about expressing your opinion and being heard." The New York Times Kit Seelye, the Nation's Ari Melber, and the Hill's Keith Koffler have the story. The names of the 32 Republicans in OFA's sights are listed after the jump...

Why, it's nearly as good as having a seat in a House conference room, surrounded by congressional Republicans! The National Republican Congressional Committee is going full-on multimedia in its push to zero in just how long their Democratic counterparts' health care legislation is, and to make the point that processing all that legislation from scratch is a lot to ask for in 72 hours. On both Facebook and Twitter, the NRCC is progressively "reading" the 2,000 or so page hunk of legislation and providing real-time updates like "36 new government entities and we're only on page 1,089." Want to read H.R. 3962 while on the go? There's an app for that, says the NRCC in a new YouTube video that jokes about how a bill that big will bring your iPhone to a screeching halt.

Nestled in the gargantuan omnibus appropriations bill currently cooling its heals before Congress is a snippet of language that may be of interest. What the provision, inserted by Silicon Valley Democrat Mike Honda, would do is start the process of pushing out federal legislative records in bulk, directly to the public. Wired's Kim Vitter has details on Honda's provision. The raison d'être of the Library of Congress' THOMAS system, as you likely know, is to make legislative documents accessible, from bill texts to Congressional Research Service summaries to co-sponsor lists to status updates. THOMAS was cutting edge when it was introduced. Of course, that was back when Bill Clinton was waxing futuristic about bridges to the 21st century. Today, it's showing its age. Working with THOMAS can be an exercise in frustration. The lack of persistent URLS, for example, means that individual documents can be difficult to link to directly. And THOMAS isn't great at engaging the public on the colloquial level it has towards legislation. (Try search THOMAS for "stimulus.") THOMAS today is a pretty good database with a lagging user interface attached.

User-friendly sites like OpenCongress (which, hey and by the way, has just released a bunch of new features, including a wiki) have stepped in to fill the breach, but they work by scraping THOMAS. Honda's office is looking for help determining the best method for pushing out bulk legislative data, whether that's an API or, Honda's online director Rob Pierson tells Wired, "some sort of bulk-data download." Share your thoughts here or in Wired's comments, and Honda's office is sure to see them.