The roster of the 113th Congress is up. * It's in the people.xml files, e.g.: http://govtrack.us/data/us/113/people.xml * As well as the GovTrack API. * And...
Now that GovTrack is switching over to a new set of scrapers co-authored by Eric Mill at Sunlight, I've had to take the legacy site down since it was no longer...
The GovTrack people database has had entries for vice presidents and other people who served neither as a Members of Congress nor as a president. These folks...
Just an FYI, 78 people in the people.xml for 113 are missing bioguide ids. Possibly when file was updated they didn't have bioguide ids, but at least some of...
Thanks, yeah. I've just posted updated people.xml (us and us/113) that draws in data from the new congress-legislators db rather than my legacy db, and this ...
I was wondering how nicknames are assigned to people? I see that it's Bob Casey, but Charles Schumer. And it's Michael Crapo, not Mike Crapo, even though his...
It's a little haphazard for senators, and in some cases these may go back to the database I started with in 2003. In the House the data now is based on how...
... Appreciate the reply. I'm trying to match against an existing database, which I believe has the "common" name listed, but the matching is all over the...
For current Members of Congress, state & district (House) or state & lastname (Senate) often works well --- as long as the list is definitely up to date. (I'm...
... Ah, those are good ideas, thanks. No IDs, although I plan on applying them with the results of this project. I figure yours and the bioguide should...
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Chris Brown
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Jan 10, 2013 8:48 pm
Hello everyone, I have some legacy code that uses GovTrack and relies on the bills.index.xml and votes.all.index.xml files. I see these aren't available (yet?)...
No problem. Thanks for the info Chris Brown Technical Architect National Write Your Congressman chris.brown@...<mailto:chris.brown@...> 214-466-2382...
Hi Chris, Are you able to work with the data at https://github.com/unitedstates/congress instead? That project will create JSON files for bills and votes, and...
... Delayed. Thanks for the reminder. I just finished the rewrite of the amendments scraper (for https://github.com/unitedstates/congress. The data should be...
I'm trying to set up an automated "Find and Contact Your Congressman" page. Govtrack seems to have some of that data, but it doesn't have email addresses...
Hi, Jason. There are generally no public email addresses for Members of Congress. There is no web service for message submission either, although the House has...
Excellent, thanks. We're also looking at the Sunlight Labs APIs, which reference yours. Between the APIs and files, it looks like we can have a very...
Hi all, Perhaps I missed it in browsing the data online, but I was wondering if committee reports on bills are available through GovTrack. If the data is not...
The Government Printing Office publishes these on FDSys (which has crawlable sitemaps): http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/collection.action?collectionCode=CRPT ...
An addendum to what Eric said: every *published* committee report should end up there. But many committees decide not to publish their reports because of cost...
Another addendum- Last week I wrote a scraper for GPO FDSys. It can collect files and create a local mirror and will keep the files updated by checking FDSys's...
I'm curious if there have been attempts to link speeches to the bills with which the speeches are primarily concerned. I see the <bill> tags in the XML files...
I know this is something we do as part of our Capitol Words project, and that it's available in its API <http://capitolwords.org/api/1/> as a "bills" field....
I'm running out of space on the GovTrack server's hard disk. I'm wondering if anyone would mind if I stopped mirroring bill text PDF files. GPO now has nice...
