I'm looking for any existing RDF ontologies or vocabularies for US government stuff, in particular for bills, political persons (e.g. those with bioguide IDs),...
Dear data re-users, This is advanced notice that on July 20 I'll be revising the terms of GovTrack's generic license agreement by adding the following...
Just a heads-up that the new congressman from AZ isn't in the data yet so there are a bunch of voting records with missing data. I'm hoping to get to it by...
There was another vacated vote: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll327.xml So there will be no roll call 327 file on GovTrack. -- - Josh Tauberer (@JoshData) ...
I've put this off just about long enough- GovTrack now has an API! Currently bills and people are included in the API. (Votes and committees will come later if...
I'm looking for machine-readable Bioguide data, in particular the short biographical paragraphs for currently-serving congressmen. I know about bioguide html:...
At least one bill's xml has invalid characters: http://www.govtrack.us/data/us/112/bills/h4517.xml The reason for this is that the source on thomas (maybe...
Hi, all. I know I already gave someone a real headache for not giving a heads up and feel bad about that. If you haven't seen, GovTrack is now on "2.0". The...
FYI to anyone tracking Senate votes, two senators changed their vote in roll call #28. The file on GovTrack has been updated. John, writing below & attached,...
I've noticed that the KML files for drawing Congressional districts (listed here: http://www.govtrack.us/embed/googlemaps.xpd) seem to be missing the final...
Here's all I know about the sitemaps. (I removed Blake's contact info so he doesn't get spam from the archives but am happy to pass it along.) ... Subject:...
Does anyone have a nice generalized shapefile of the current Congress? The National Atlas version is so full of detail that every island off the coast is a...
Dear all, My name is Susana Mañueco, and I work in the communications department of a high-profile international non profit organization called the Club de...
I found out about the govtrack database from my post [1] over at the google group for Sunlight Labs' API. As I mentioned there, I have a list of CRP ID /...
Is there any difference between an amendment's description and purpose? Even when they are technically different, it only seems to be by a slight rephrasing. ...
The new House site, in preview, looks like it has clean HTML5 for the parsing, including the daily and archived committee hearings and markup sessions. ...
On H.R. 2965, the DADT Repeal Act from December 2010, the only <vote> elements are from the bill's past life as a small business bill, before it got shelled...
In the event that anyone has been using the photo of Former Senator Nathan Smith, the Anti-Jacksonian that served for Connecticut during 1833-1835, please note...
All GovTrack APIs that have ".xpd" in the URL are now deprecated. These are: * The bill search API at http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billsearch_api.xpd * The...
Hey, all. I am thinking of normalizing the "type" field in roll call vote files. Most won't change but I'll correct typos in the upstream data sources and I...
So here's something, the "Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe": http://www.csce.gov/ <http://www.csce.gov/>This came through the official Senate...
