Hi all, Please join me at an IRC chat to talk about civic-technology projects, on Saturday, August 16 at 4pm Eastern time! The agenda will be a mix between...
Hi, I'm in the process of working on an iPhone application using a combination of data from Govtrack, Sunlight, OpenSecrets, etc. The iPhone presents a...
That sounds neat. Would love to hear more about the app. My personal stance on APIs is that, as far as GovTrack goes, since I provide the raw data, I don't...
Unfortunately, I've never written a line of python. A little about the application -- The idea is that most of us (If I can generalize for a moment) don't pay...
... That's quite all right since the site doesn't use Python. :) (For the APIs, it's XSLT and C#.) ... Nice! ... Communication with Congress is tricky...
I am interested in building zero energy homes. These have a lot of components to that that would benefit from government incentives. For example, there is a...
... Is this bill one of those you'd want to see? http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-1059 If any of the subject areas are close enough for you,...
A friendly interface to track issues is; http://www.opencongress.org/issue/show/4665_energy_conservation. Open Congress uses the GovTrack XML files as the...
Just a reminder. Hi all, Please join me at an IRC chat to talk about civic-technology projects, on Saturday, August 16 at 4pm Eastern time! The agenda will be...
(Passing this along...) www.MAPLight.org Drupal Developer / MySQL Admin MAPLight.org, a dynamic Berkeley-based non-profit illuminating the connection between...
Thanks to Dan Gabriel, the visual appearance of GovTrack has been totally revamped. Check it out. It's not totally finished, but I wanted to push the changes...
I am really happy to see the community springing up around GovTrack and seeing substantial contributions to the project. I find it a little harder to get to...
http://www.govtrack.us/ Looks great One thing I note is that the "Track Legislation" Google ad was so prominent, it almost competes for attention with the main...
Hi GovTrack community! This is my thesis, that I launched in May of 2008: http://www.causecaller.com/ I came up with the idea of automating call queues for...
(Also a hyperlinked version here: http://www.govtrack.us/blog/2008/09/09/govtrack-updated) This month www.GovTrack.us hits its four-year anniversary. It’s...
While reviewing some of the bills online, I like the way you can reference specific sections of the bills with linkable tool tips being present. This got me...
... Thanks! You mean creating a link right to a paragraph, right? You're the first to provide feedback on that. We (that is, really someone else is doing the...
... being ... You're the ... bill ... available ... Amendments ... aspects ... on ... a ... would be ... This probably is more relavent when ammeding a bill,...
Not sure if anyone really cares here, but I thought I would mention that I have changed this morning the statistics generated per Member of Congress on bill...
... Yes and no. I think I know what you mean, but an example would help. If you're suggesting that on a bill text page it should link to the amendments that...
... It's just that the meaning of the fields changed. The structure of the XML didn't change. -- - Josh Tauberer - GovTrack.us http://razor.occams.info "Yields...
Josh, Thanks for the update. An exception on resolutions: joint resolutions can become public law. Don't now if you have considered this or not. In the 110th,...
Josh: Yes, *I* care! <G> You may remember I asked you a couple of months ago if there wasn't some way to provide an option to eliminate resolutions when...
... Definitely a bug. I'll look into it. Thanks! -- - Josh Tauberer - GovTrack.us http://razor.occams.info "Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation!...
Carl Malamud of public.resource.org, with funding from a bunch of places including a small bit from GovTrack's ad profits, announced his intention to purchase...
