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Inside the Cannon House Office building on Capitol Hill is a little-noticed office called the Legislative Resource Center, where a trove of congressional records are available for the public to access.
PAY DIRT decided to stop by the office to go through some recent taxpayer-funded official mail and found that at least a few members of Congress had used the service to plug some of their donors.