Has there been any discussion of a machine tag convention for GovTrack "nodes"? (see http://machinetags.org/ or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_tag) If...
Hi All, Could anyone point me to a list of elected officials over time. I expect that no single list has everything I want, but the ideal list would have all ...
As some of you may or may not know, Follow the Money has an API available to access their information. Since I want to use some of this at critterwatch.org, I...
As I announced recently, I'm currently working on a project at www.critterwatch.org. The overall goal is to provide people with up-to-date information on how...
Not officially launched yet, but I'd appreciate some people banging on critterwatch.org and telling me what breaks. It's a site to track how you state senators...
Hello, I'm working on a site that allows you to vote on active legislation. When you vote, you will be able to send your vote to your representatives. You'll...
Hey, all. On Tuesday, the Open House Project released its report at a press conference in the Capitol building before a handful of House staffers. I gave a...
Hey, all. If you're using GovTrack data, or plan to, could you let me know? In a short presentation I'll be making in a week (more on that in about a week),...
Would anyone have any idea where I found this data? Who provided it? The file is people.xml. I searched the net and found it once, but can't find it again. It...
List members, consider voting for MAPLight below. - J ... Subject: Get Big Money Out of Politics - Vote for MAPLight.org Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:52:47...
In case anyone on the list is bored and wants to work on a project that would be really useful, I want to extract two ideas out of the current read-the-bill...
Hi All, maybe you already know these two interesting videos of Jane Fountain about Semantic Web and Governance: 1) http://videolectures.net/iswc06_fountain_pc/...
Hey GovTrackers, As you probably already know, GovTrack.us has a lot of great feeds. As you may not know, Yahoo! Pipes makes it possible to mash them up to...
Below is the real announcement about OpenCongress. - J ... Subject: [ODOG] OpenCongress is launching today - help us spread the word! Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007...
I'm pleased to relay the information that today http://www.OpenCongress.org is launching. OpenCongress --- created by the Participatory Politics Foundation...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Something in the Times that I thought was (pathetically) amusing, and that I figured I'd pass on to fill the void on this list: “It’s truly a mystery to...
A staffer on Capitol Hill forwarded this, it speaks to the challenge we face in forcing disclosure and uncovering corruption in the Congressional spending...
Hello, I'd be very interested to know how the maps for govtrack.us are created. Are the boundaries districts or zip codes? How do you plot the boundaries on...
Hey, all, below I'm forwarding a launch announcement for MAPLight.org. The site integrates California state legislative information with state-level...
