Hi, folks. The bill Q&A system on GovTrack is getting lots and lots of submissions lately. 1400 submissions this month alone so far. It's starting to hit the...
Has anyone begun any projects to port the govtrack system to tracking any state legislatures? As a Washhington state resident (and state employee), I'm...
I am new to this group and look forward to keeping up with Congressional action and giving input. I found this site through searching for information on some...
Dear all, You've all probably seen the new YouTube channels for the House and Senate and the kind of dorky :-) video intro from our congressional leaders [1],...
Good day! I have created a blog aggregator that combines as many of the open government technology blogs as I could come up with quickly. The address of the...
Clay Johnson over at Sunlight announces a new contest with a $15,000 prize. http://blog.sunlightfoundation.com/2009/01/12/announcing-apps-for-america/ -- -...
I've extended the GovTrack database of roll call votes back to 1989 for the Senate and 1990 for the House, which is the earliest that each chamber has posted...
All, The data format for roll call votes is being updated. New elements and attribute values are now possible. This was done so that House votes for election...
Hi govtrack, I set up a Facebook profile where I can post my pictures, videos and events and I want to add you as a friend so you can see it. First, you need...
Anyone have any experience making nice screencasts? Something with a little pazzaz? -- - Josh Tauberer - GovTrack.us http://razor.occams.info "Yields falsehood...
http://www.cfac.org/content/index.php/cfac-news/cfac_litigation/ <http://www.cfac.org/content/index.php/cfac-news/cfac_litigation/> Wednesday, December 03,...
I am able to get List of all senate members (with BioguideID) http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm BUT for house, I couldnt find...
If I change the lastname field in people.xml to have non-ASCII characters, e.g. with Puerto Rico's Luis Fortuño getting the tilde instead of Fortuno, will...
If I schedule the next oGosh chat for Saturday, December 6 at 4pm Eastern Time, will people come? (Reply off list.) The Facebook group now has 146 members,...
Hi All- I spoke to Josh last week, abut being able to forward an invitation to the list. We are looking to find individuals working on open government issues...
I stumbled on this this morning: http://www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/election2008/committees/# It's like those puzzles where you push the tiles around. -- ...
The Open Senate Project was launched today. This is a follow-up to the Open House Project, still a Sunlight Foundation project; this time I'm co-coordinating...
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This weekend I was in the Bay Area at the Free Culture 2008 conference (really great!) and a combination of things happened- At a somewhat random meeting...
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: ...
