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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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?)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
