Just a quick note. I've just posted 113/committees.xml, which is the committee membership file. It's up to date for the Senate based on the...
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jdchangmedia
Feb 16, 2013 11:37 pm
Wow, this is awesome. Great stuff! Just to make sure, this encompasses current incumbents in office. But, there is no list for challengers (present or past) or...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Feb 17, 2013 7:19 am
That's right. This is official (non-campaign) accounts for currently elected members only. ... -- Developer | sunlightfoundation.com...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Feb 20, 2013 6:28 pm
Someone's queries to the votes API were bringing down my whole server, so I've disabled the two votes endpoints for the moment. MySQL wasn't optimizing a query...
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maplight_kent
Feb 21, 2013 8:27 pm
Can we do anything to help get it back online? We have some MySQL folks who might be able to optimize the culprit queries. If it was our calls, I'll...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Feb 21, 2013 9:01 pm
Hey, Kent. On the up-side, it wasn't you. The culprit was paying attention and sent an email soon after the API started returning 404s. :) I'm afraid to turn...
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maplight_kent
Feb 22, 2013 2:27 pm
Thanks. I looked on the GovTrack site, but couldn't find docs for V2. If there are, would you mind pointing me to them? I'm having trouble filtering. URLs...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Feb 22, 2013 2:40 pm
... Haven't done it yet. ... Instead of filtering on bill congress/type/number, just use the bill ID: http://www.govtrack.us/api/v2/vote?related_bill=73152 You...
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Maurizio
iluvmyannie4...
Feb 24, 2013 4:54 pm
Hello Josh, first, thank you for your awesome work. I wanted to ask if you'll enable vote_voter for v2 as well :) Cheers, Maurizio...
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mcafeeryan92
Feb 24, 2013 4:54 pm
Hi, What's going on with the vote_voter functionality? Is there some equivalent available in v2, or is v1's functionality going to work soon or is it changed?...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Feb 24, 2013 6:50 pm
Ok it's enabled now. The 'option' filter doesn't work the same. You can pass the ID of an option object, which you can get from the vote API. I'll try to add...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Feb 24, 2013 7:54 pm
If you work with the historical data, please note that the people with IDs 407328 and 408295 have been merged into 408295 since it was the same person. This...
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Maurizio
iluvmyannie4...
Feb 24, 2013 9:00 pm
Thanks Josh, I can see it now. You rock. Maurizio...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Feb 27, 2013 9:23 pm
Documentation for the v2 API is up: http://www.govtrack.us/developers/api FYI, v2 also adds full text search for bills (and people). - Josh Tauberer...
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Margie Roswell
margieroswell
Mar 2, 2013 4:31 am
re: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/113-2013/h55 the <span class="dot... color swatches under "VOTE DETAILS" appear overridingly Red, which of course,...
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Maurizio
iluvmyannie4...
Mar 4, 2013 2:49 pm
Hello Josh, the historical data is very interesting. If a senator/representative passed away, is that date in the data? I can't seem to find it. Thanks, ...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Mar 4, 2013 3:01 pm
In principle it would affect the end date of the last term, but before about 2005 most of the end dates are just the end date of the Congress. I think there's...
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Maurizio
iluvmyannie4...
Mar 4, 2013 3:26 pm
Ah thanks, I'll look that up. Related question: is there leadership/partisanship data on past governments? I can see the missed votes there but can't find...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Mar 4, 2013 4:00 pm
I hadn't run the analysis on historical data, but I'm running it now. (93rd Congress and on, which is where bill data starts.) - Josh Tauberer (@JoshData) ...
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Maurizio
iluvmyannie4...
Mar 4, 2013 4:20 pm
Yeah I can see it now. So fast! I see the "rolls" from all the congress though not just 93 and on - is something more needed to run the analysis? Anyway,...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Mar 4, 2013 4:22 pm
... Let's start with what the analysis is: http://www.govtrack.us/about/analysis#ideology Thanks, - Josh Tauberer (@JoshData) http://razor.occams.info...
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Maurizio
iluvmyannie4...
Mar 5, 2013 12:48 pm
Got it co-sponsorship is required for the stat analysis. Two more things: 1. birthday of Rep. Carol Shea-Porter is "null" should be 1952-12-2 2. gender of...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Mar 5, 2013 1:51 pm
Thanks. Biographical info is now collected on github, so the best place to post these sorts of issues is now: ...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Mar 6, 2013 1:54 pm
Thanks, Margie. This should now be fixed. The dots were drawn too wide and were covering up other dots. - Josh Tauberer (@JoshData) http://razor.occams.info...
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Daniel G. Gerber
daniel.g.gerber@...
Mar 15, 2013 5:16 pm
Hi, Do you plan to release a new version of the vote ontology? Govtrack raw data <http://www.govtrack.us/data/rdf/> uses a property vote:votedBy. This is fine...
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Maurizio
iluvmyannie4...
Mar 15, 2013 6:55 pm
Hello, is the prognosis data available somewhere, as the sponsorship_analysis is /stats/ ? That would be great. Thanks, Annie...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Mar 16, 2013 3:06 pm
Heads up- The GovTrack people API now returns vice presidents in addition to Members of Congress and presidents. There is a new role_type "vicepresident." ...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Mar 17, 2013 5:08 pm
Hi Maurizio. Sorry, it's not available. It's computed just when it needs to be displayed, so it's not stored anywhere. - Josh Tauberer (@JoshData) ...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Mar 17, 2013 5:16 pm
Hi, Daniel. No plans. None of the RDF data is currently maintained. (The last export was two years ago.) If you're working on anything interesting using the...
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abbottfleur
Apr 6, 2013 8:19 pm
I am new to your api data and was wondering if there were any methods to easily get from CurrentMembers to a Specific member.. or from a committee to its...
