I recently saw a video from 2004 CSPAN coverage showing a subcommittee (Sponsored Enterprises). Does govtrack have votes from things in committee? Is this ...
Hello, Is anyone else finding the idea of "voice votes" and other off the recorded votes a bit frustrating? Many of the bills I've been tracking on our site,...
I am in the process of adding a new section to GovTrack called "Learn" that will be some expository writing on: The U.S. Congress: Structure and Composition ...
Based on an idea from John Wonderlich on the Open House Project mail list, I adapted the bill comparison tool I developed for GovTrack and analyzed the changes...
I'm getting a bunch of general legislative process questions through the new bill Q&A feature on GovTrack. One of the questions I promoted into a blog post: ...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
(Passing this along...) www.MAPLight.org Drupal Developer / MySQL Admin MAPLight.org, a dynamic Berkeley-based non-profit illuminating the connection between...
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...
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...
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...
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...
It's outrageous that the Wall Street Journal publishes Karl Rove's propaganda as if it was valid news. Today's Wall Street includes Karl Rove's venom. I...
An article on linux.com about GovTrack and the new community direction I'm trying to take it in: http://www.linux.com/feature/142232 -- - Josh Tauberer -...
Now that GovTrack is open source (http://www.govtrack.us/source.xpd) I am going to try to be a little more encouraging to get others involved in maintaining...
Hello Josh: Wow, there's a lot of stuff out "there". Anyway, I am trying to get my head around some SPARQL. Debugging some large SQL queries can take 2 beers! ...
Hi, I am running similar project for Lithuanian (EU) Parliament. As part of the project's remake all the data will be presented in RDF and I hope to reuse...
Hi all, If you're on Facebook, consider joining my group oGosh: Open Government Open Source Hacking. The scope of this group is anything in the spirit of open...
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...
GovTrack's semantic web side is profiled in an article on SemanticWeb.com: http://www.semanticweb.com/insight/article.php/3758406 -- - Josh Tauberer -...
So starting back in late 2006 there were some discussions about what kind of policies Congress should adopt for data. That lead to The Open House Project...
Hello Josh: I am a programmer who recently started [again] looking at the sematic web stuff. An iteresting site I came across is DBPedia. They have indexed the...
Hi guys. With the recent discussion about writing bills on a wiki, I know there are people here with good technical skills! So I'm writing my periodical pitch...
