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Hi, all. Here are my current plans for the 113th Congress. New Members ... I hope to get info up on the new Members of Congress right after the current...
3 Dec 11, 2012
4:57 pm

Josh Tauberer
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I wanted to offer some lessons I learned in putting this data up in Filemaker, as I would think others probably use that platform. (Hopefully this is the...
3 Nov 16, 2012
7:09 pm

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Some of you may be using the old congressional districts WMS map layers for Google Maps API. These are the layers created by referencing a URL that looked like...
1 Nov 8, 2012
6:45 pm

Josh Tauberer
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I am doing some work for a Non-Profit that requires the ability to determine who there Congress members are by ZIP+4. It's great that www.govtrak.us has added...
4 Oct 24, 2012
11:43 am

Josh Tauberer
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FYI - The project below is one day going to replace the current GovTrack raw data. This is just an early heads-up. I don't plan to discontinue any of the...
1 Oct 5, 2012
3:51 pm

Josh Tauberer
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Dear GovTrack, I'm having some trouble with some of the API methods. This seems to be a successful call: ...
6 Sep 5, 2012
3:04 pm

Josh Tauberer
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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),...
2 Aug 28, 2012
10:28 pm

Josh Tauberer
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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...
4 Jul 22, 2012
9:41 pm

Josh Tauberer
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Small bug report: H.R. 1148 is referred in part to the House Ethics committee, and is missing the "HSSO" code to go along with it: ...
2 Jun 23, 2012
7:03 pm

Josh Tauberer
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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...
1 Jun 21, 2012
6:15 pm

Josh Tauberer
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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) ...
1 Jun 7, 2012
11:44 pm

Josh Tauberer
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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...
9 May 23, 2012
10:55 pm

Josh Tauberer
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I'm looking for machine-readable Bioguide data, in particular the short biographical paragraphs for currently-serving congressmen. I know about bioguide html:...
5 May 11, 2012
4:13 pm

Eric Mill
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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...
2 Apr 28, 2012
12:42 pm

Josh Tauberer
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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...
1 Mar 23, 2012
2:25 pm

Josh Tauberer
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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,...
2 Mar 12, 2012
2:02 pm

Derek Willis
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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...
1 Feb 22, 2012
11:45 am

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I get the following error on Mac OS 10.6 when I try the example rsync command from http://www.govtrack.us/developers/data.xpd: $ rsync -az --delete...
2 Jan 29, 2012
5:15 pm

Josh Tauberer
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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:...
1 Dec 10, 2011
7:13 pm

Josh Tauberer
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Hey all, We've noticed the we stopped receiving bill text from govtrack. It seems to have stopped around this bill: ...
9 Dec 10, 2011
7:10 pm

Eric Mill
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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...
5 Dec 2, 2011
8:33 pm

Eric Mill
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Dear all, My name is Susana MaƱueco, and I work in the communications department of a high-profile international non profit organization called the Club de...
1 Oct 10, 2011
11:19 am

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This bill http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s112-940 seems to be missing a link to the related roll-call vote ...
2 Sep 20, 2011
12:43 pm

Eric Mill
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Roll number 484 is missing. Anyone know what happened? http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/index.asp -- - Josh Tauberer - GovTrack.us / POPVOX.com ...
3 Jul 1, 2011
6:53 pm

Josh Tauberer
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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 /...
8 Jun 3, 2011
7:45 pm

Derek Willis
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I think you might need to regenerate a couple vote files, there are two "0" IDs on each of these vote files: ...
4 Jun 3, 2011
1:29 pm

Eric Mill
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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. ...
4 May 26, 2011
5:26 pm

Josh Tauberer
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Quick bug report - a couple of committees are having their hearings turn up with blank committee_ids in GovTrack's XML feed: ...
6 May 17, 2011
8:42 pm

Josh Tauberer
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Hey guys, I just had to switch over to Godaddy hosting for my site, and it looks like they block rsync. Any ideas for work-arounds? Thanks....
5 Apr 25, 2011
11:51 am

Dale E. Moore
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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. ...
5 Apr 24, 2011
2:43 am

Eric Mill
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