A drupal module was just released for grabbing legislative data and making group discussion pages for each bill. I could imagine it being very useful for...
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Neil Drumm
ndrumm3
Nov 4, 2007 8:30 pm
I actually built the same type of Drupal module- http://drupal.org/project/legislature. This module gets legislative data for http://maplight.org/ and...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Nov 10, 2007 2:12 pm
Prompted by a suggestion I got by email, I'm wondering what others think about: A new mail list for analysis of federal legislation and related issues, with...
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Dale Moore
daleemoore
Nov 10, 2007 5:00 pm
I would love it. On Nov 10, 2007 8:12 AM, Josh Tauberer <tauberer@...> wrote: Prompted by a suggestion I got by email, I'm wondering what others think ...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Nov 11, 2007 2:09 am
Occasionally I toss out some ideas to the list. One of these days I'll really spark someone's interest... Something that I think would be interesting would be...
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Corey Gilmore
coreygilmore...
Dec 3, 2007 10:47 pm
It looks like committees.xml for the 110th (I haven't checked any others) only has the Chairman listed for Senate Committees, and no other roles. Is this by...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Dec 3, 2007 11:02 pm
... Just to clarify for everyone- The file has entries for all members (though it's not been updated recently), but only has role attributes for the chairman,...
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Corey Gilmore
coreygilmore...
Dec 3, 2007 11:37 pm
... you ... That's correct - for Senate Committees only the Chairman is listed, not the Ranking Member. or any other types. There are multiple role attributes...
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Tim McGhee
extension123
Dec 4, 2007 1:33 am
... Josh posted a lot of his scraping scripts a while back: http://razor.occams.info/code/repo/?/govtrack/gather/us (There's no archive of messages in the...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Dec 4, 2007 11:27 am
... But not all of them, and not this one. I just added parse_committeemembership.pl which does the committee membership scraping. You can download the...
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Rob Pierson
piersonr1
Dec 4, 2007 6:54 pm
Hey all,, Does anyone know if there is a way to create a feed of a representative's most recently cosponsored legislation? Thanks! Rob...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Dec 5, 2007 3:03 pm
... I just added feeds of the form: http://www.govtrack.us/users/events.xpd?monitors=ps:400130 'ps' = person (co)sponsorship You'd have to get IDs from the...
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Rob Pierson
piersonr1
Dec 5, 2007 4:39 pm
That's VERY helpful, particularly for congressional staff. There was previously no way for us to get a list of bills our boss has cosponsored in a...
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Tim McGhee
extension123
Dec 6, 2007 1:38 am
Is this available in the form of one feed for all members, or shall we turn to Yahoo! Pipes for that? ;) Tim 11,140 days ... -- Tim McGhee 703-798-3227 ...
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Tim McGhee
extension123
Dec 6, 2007 1:51 am
Actually on closer examination, I'm not sure that this new ps: feature is exactly what was requested, though I'm grateful as always that Josh is still as quick...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Dec 6, 2007 3:27 pm
... I am not sure, but I think I understood right. ... That's true. ... If even that. ... I don't have that information; I can't reliably get updated ...
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Tim McGhee
extension123
Dec 7, 2007 10:08 pm
... I just realized that even though I was trying to state it clearer, I could have been clearer yet. As in, not a feed of the bills (which a member is on),...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Dec 9, 2007 8:37 pm
... I understood. :) ... Right. Because THOMAS provides no general list of updated bills, and cosponsorship changes are not listed in the Daily Digest page...
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Neil Drumm
ndrumm3
Dec 13, 2007 9:06 pm
What is the schedule for updating roll vote XML files, as in /data/us/110/rolls/...? In particular, when is the bill element added? Our algorithm currently...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Dec 14, 2007 12:03 am
... The files are updated every 15 min. now, or something. The bill element comes in immediately --- it is information detected from the (official) source data...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Dec 14, 2007 12:57 am
... I'm not sure that really improves on the Apache directory listing. The time format, for instance, varies depending on the age of the file. -- - Josh...
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Corey Gilmore
coreygilmore...
Dec 14, 2007 1:20 am
... <snip> ... better ... place ... If it's at all possible for you I'd highly recommend switching to rsync. My process is: * Run rsync on the votes dir, get...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Dec 18, 2007 1:23 pm
FYI: [ This is a copy of the message you have just sent to everyone who signed your pledge http://www.en-gb.pledgebank.com/openhouse ] Hello, Thanks for...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Dec 18, 2007 1:24 pm
Also FYI. ... Subject: [openhouseproject] Eight Open Goverment Data Principles Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:25:59 -0500 From: Josh Tauberer <tauberer@...>...
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inkdroid
Dec 27, 2007 5:32 pm
Might be of interest if it hasn't popped in your email client of feed reader yet... -- http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/27/business/27online.html SAN FRANCISCO...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jan 10, 2008 2:42 am
(Posted at: http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/2008/01/09/procedural-uncertainty-normalization/) I always find it interesting how although our government is...
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Peggy Garvin
pgrvn
Jan 10, 2008 4:03 am
Josh, This gets back to the legislative process/sausage-making comparison. It can be difficult, or deceptive, to try to "normalize" the dynamism of the...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jan 12, 2008 12:53 pm
... Hi, Yeah, I agree that capturing these nuances is important. I had never really looked closely at that Note field in THOMAS. Hmm. -- - Josh Tauberer -...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jan 16, 2008 1:52 pm
This week I'm launching GovTrack's Legislative Analysis Community Blog. The goal is to get thoughtful posts on current legislative issues written by the...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jan 17, 2008 1:34 pm
... Subject: announce theinfo.org: a community for people who work with large data sets Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:56:42 -0800 From: Aaron Swartz...
