Below is the real announcement about OpenCongress. - J ... Subject: [ODOG] OpenCongress is launching today - help us spread the word! Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Feb 26, 2007 12:34 pm
I'm pleased to relay the information that today http://www.OpenCongress.org is launching. OpenCongress --- created by the Participatory Politics Foundation...
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Chris Kinnan
bradentonmafia
Feb 15, 2007 5:07 pm
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT * OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET* * WASHINGTON, D.C. 20503* * * FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 15, 2007 ...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Feb 9, 2007 2:52 am
Fellow list members, I'm pleased to forward a press release from the Sunlight Foundation about The Open House Project, which is a working group of sorts that ...
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Joshua Tauberer / Gov...
tauberer
Jan 18, 2007 1:20 pm
... Excellent. ... Doubly excellent. I don't have much to say on that because I know absolutely nothing about the structure of the Italian government, but... ...
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Peter Ruibal
pedrodequeso
Jan 18, 2007 3:09 am
fwiw, the w3c has a lot to say about this. Check out http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ if you're feeling up to it....
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Luigi
luigi_selmi
Jan 17, 2007 1:27 pm
Hi all (I thought there were more people), I am very interested in the semantic web technologies and in the improvement they can bring to the society all over...
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Jason A. Lefkowitz
jason_lefkowitz
Jan 4, 2007 4:45 am
... Yes, they will change over time. You will need to stay on top of whether your POSTs are going through or not, and periodically modify your logic to...
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tay199
Jan 4, 2007 3:36 am
I'll take a look at the forms. My fear is that they are not all alike, and the pages and forms will change over time. What's a "logic puzzle"? ... hard to...
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tay199
Jan 4, 2007 3:22 am
Yeah, that's exactly what I wanted to do :) Just need the addresses......
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TML
xmiinc2k3
Jan 3, 2007 3:02 pm
On the other hand, once you do get ahold of the email addies, it shouldn't be a problem to script and config a form to send to multiple "mailto:" addresses....
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Kimo Crossman
kimocrossman1
Jan 3, 2007 2:36 pm
Fyi: They have moved away from providing email addresses because they get too much spam and often they want to know what zip code a voter that is contacting...
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Jason A. Lefkowitz
jason_lefkowitz
Jan 3, 2007 2:24 pm
You're going to have to have your system POST the information through the appropriate Web forms, unfortunately -- almost no offices offer public e-mail...
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Joe Germuska
germuska
Jan 3, 2007 1:51 pm
None of my representatives publish email addresses on their web sites any more; they all require constituents to use a form to make contact. While I mildly...
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Aron Pilhofer
aronpilhofer
Jan 3, 2007 1:25 pm
The GPO prints a congressional directory (also available online, for free) that may have email addresses in it. ... -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Aron Pilhofer ...
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tay199
Jan 3, 2007 1:12 pm
I'm building a government site, and I'd like to include a way that people can contact their representatives directly from my site. I'm familiar with the "email...
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Chris Kinnan
bradentonmafia
Dec 20, 2006 2:26 am
The Environmental Working Group (ewg.org) is doing some great work on transparency and US agriculture programs, and they are going to get 64 million new...
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TML
xmiinc2k3
Dec 9, 2006 4:34 pm
...and how about those presidential "signing statements"...now there's a constitutional goldmine! tl ...
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Peggy Garvin
pgrvn
Dec 7, 2006 11:30 pm
Perhaps more than you want to know at: http://www.opencrs.com/rpts/RL33009_20050726.pdf "Happen" and "Recess" are discussed on pages 3-10. Peggy "Joshua...
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Joshua Tauberer / Gov...
tauberer
Dec 7, 2006 10:46 pm
When there's an intersection between government and linguistics, I get very interested. Here's a note about the constitutionality of recess appointments by a...
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dale
cdalemx
Dec 2, 2006 9:15 pm
added metavid's ideal legislative transparency initiative :) Also if we can somehow request that all these digital transparency initiatives are implemented...
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Joshua Tauberer / Gov...
tauberer
Dec 2, 2006 1:53 am
A few days ago Dan Newman of Maplight.org pointed me to a blog post by Zephyr Teachout of the Sunlight Foundation (who I met a few weeks ago): ...
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Joshua Tauberer / Gov...
tauberer
Nov 29, 2006 7:18 pm
... Great. ... Very nice. Let me know when I should add a link from GovTrack. ... Really great. I can't wait to do that. ... I think I've done that (other...
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dale
cdalemx
Nov 28, 2006 12:47 pm
so I found some time to check out the people.xml file ;) ...much nicer than screen scraping the government website ;) I will be using that xml file for future...
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TML
xmiinc2k3
Nov 23, 2006 4:10 pm
hehe...gee, d'ya think?...
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Aron Pilhofer
aronpilhofer
Nov 23, 2006 2:06 pm
If I didn't know better, I'd say it's as if they didn't want you to know where the money is going....
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Chris Kinnan
bradentonmafia
Nov 23, 2006 11:16 am
A staffer on Capitol Hill forwarded this, it speaks to the challenge we face in forcing disclosure and uncovering corruption in the Congressional spending...
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Joshua Tauberer / Gov...
tauberer
Nov 9, 2006 2:27 pm
... Right, I forgot that Thomas's HTML versions are pretty good. ... Not as far as I know also. In that case, the task may be a lot easier. Convert the HTML...
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Scott Burns
sburns@...
Nov 9, 2006 12:18 pm
Instead of trying to convert PDFs and remove formatting you can get basic HTML versions of these bills from Thomas. This bill, for example, can be found here:...
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Joshua Tauberer / Gov...
tauberer
Nov 9, 2006 12:10 pm
... Ahha, I think that could be useful. Thanks for the pointer. (It's actually been integrated in the poppler-utils RPM for Fedora Core 6, if that's useful...
