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New members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives members have been sworn into office, but you wouldn't know it from their Web sites.[Missing Links]

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The newly elected members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives members have been sworn into office, but you wouldn't know it from their Web sites.

Out of dozens of politicos elected in November, only one senator and one member of the House have bothered to establish their own Web sites so far. The tech-savvy duo: Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., and Rep. Daniel Lipinski, D-Ill.

The other freshman House members must to be satisfied with the clunky, less-than-useful templates provided by default. But at least those templates display a telephone number: in the Senate, all Web-browsing constituents get is a promise of a "new Senator site coming soon!"