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...
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...
... Delayed. Thanks for the reminder. I just finished the rewrite of the amendments scraper (for https://github.com/unitedstates/congress. The data should be...
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...
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Chris Brown
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Jan 10, 2013 9:03 pm
No problem. Thanks for the info Chris Brown Technical Architect National Write Your Congressman chris.brown@...<mailto:chris.brown@...> 214-466-2382...
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?)...
... 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...
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...
... 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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 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...
Hello! Most of you will probably get this like ten times, but- The next International Open Data Day is February 23, 2013. Eric Mill and I are organizing a...
Thanks Eric, I will read through your code before I start working on mine. I first need to learn a bit of Ruby. I've programmed in many languages but haven't...
Hi John, I'm not loading it into a relational database, but I am loading data on people, committees, and bills from that data on github.com/unitedstatesinto a...
Hi, John. ... They're not really in the 'supported' set of files, and they will probably disappear in a few months when I transition to the new ...
I would like to learn some more about the files contained in th "db" directory: database.sql and database.people.sql. * Are these files actively being used...
Hey, Harvey. I haven't really considered it. I can see how it would be useful, but I think it would take too much time to collect and maintain. Best, - Josh...
Hi Josh: Have you considered adding a list of Caucuses, Taskforces, Coalitions, etc. (eg, Blue Dogs) a congressman belongs to, to his/her description page? ...
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...
