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Despite a significant outtage of Amazon Web Services earlier this month, Amazon recently announced the launch of a new zone, AWS GovCloud. While cost savings are a definite plus in this economy, downtime and security issues caused us to wonder if the cloud could be trusted with such vital data? So, we asked you for your thoughts on trusting the cloud for government use.

You answered and we culled your responses on Facebook and Twitter and used Storify to present it all back to you. If you have additional responses, please leave them in the comments.

We have spent a great deal of time covering US President Barack Obama's Web presence, from the Democrat's social media strategies to whitehouse.gov. So when the Republicans in the US Congress released a new version of their site - complete with RSS feeds and an API - we felt it only appropriate to give the site a bi-partisan once over. And while the site has received an obvious facelift, it's the underlying functionality - and access to information - that drew our attention.