Your friend, tauberer@..., wants you to check out this article: http://www.newsweek.com/id/186991...
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pgrvn
Mar 2, 2009 1:59 pm
... Go, Josh! A mention of GovTrack has become de rigeur in these types of articles. Too bad the reporter focused on government API's and not so much the ...
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Ed Summers
inkdroid
Mar 2, 2009 4:23 pm
It does seem key to stress the importance of making the raw data available instead of putting the data behind water-fountain like web2.0 APIs. I'm not sure...
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francis4ags@...
be_self_aware
Mar 2, 2009 4:54 pm
Excellent work Josh! you and everyone else who keep govtrack running deserve so much more recognition :) Francis Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T ... From:...
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Peggy Garvin
pgrvn
Mar 2, 2009 5:36 pm
The post is here: http://tinyurl.com/b5aryc I was a little underwhelmed by the article, so redirected folks to OOGL. Blog address is: ...
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Joe Germuska
germuska
Mar 2, 2009 10:56 pm
Josh: For the bill search API (e.g. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billsearch_api.xpd?q=iraq+war) it seems that there's a mechanism for redirecting an exact...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Mar 6, 2009 1:50 pm
... That's essentially a mistake because the API and non-API versions use the same routine internally. However, it's not meant as a resolution mechanism for my...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Mar 16, 2009 12:29 pm
(Hyperlinked version here: http://www.govtrack.us/blog/2009/03/16/mixedink-experiment-a-collaborative-letter-to-congress-on-hr-45/) GovTrack launches MixedInk...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Mar 18, 2009 8:53 pm
(Apologies for the usual cross-posting.) Announcing: HackingCongress.org The intersection of civics & technology http://www.hackingcongress.org/ Our community...
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jlundigard
Mar 18, 2009 9:36 pm
Josh, We're not seeing any membership data on House subcommittees. Is this a temporary situation or should we be looking for that info elsewhere? Thanks, Andy...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Mar 19, 2009 8:51 pm
... a temporary situation or should we be looking for that info elsewhere? The House clerk website hasn't posted the info, so I don't have it. I also don't...
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Harvey S. Frey
hsfrey
Mar 20, 2009 12:14 am
Each committee I've looked at at http://www.house.gov/house/CommitteeWWW.shtml has a link to subcommittees, and each of those I've looked at has a link to a...
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pito
Mar 26, 2009 9:08 pm
For some reason I thought that govtrack.us had an api where I could lookup info on bills. Specifically, I am interested in being to get information about house...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Mar 26, 2009 10:25 pm
This might be one of those things where you can build it yourself if you need it. :) GovTrack is open source so... If you are only looking in the past so-many...
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R. Pito Salas
pito
Mar 26, 2009 11:38 pm
Josh Thanks... I haven't looked into where govtrack.us's raw data comes from. I could indeed build it myself if that data is readily available... Or do you...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Mar 26, 2009 11:57 pm
... It comes from a mess. ... See http://govtrack.us/developers/data.xpd. ... That's possible too. ... No, no, you should never have to scrape GovTrack. You...
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Neil Drumm
ndrumm3
Mar 27, 2009 6:21 am
... This is what I do with Legislature module for Drupal. Download XML lists of everything on a schedule, and queue anything possible. In a few hours, the SQL...
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josephsam28
Mar 27, 2009 8:32 pm
BTW Great work you doing. I downloaded the source perl scripts which scrapes data from Thomas and trying to use those them instead of resync XML. What is the...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Mar 27, 2009 8:43 pm
... Why not rsync'ing the XML, out of curiosity? What you described is correct. The ALLSESSION thing is to do a full update of all bill data, or to get missing...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Apr 3, 2009 5:04 pm
This year the Congressional Research Service changed the way they assign subject terms to bills: http://thomas.loc.gov/help/terms-subjects.html There are now...
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Cindy Sue Causey
butterfly_bytes
Apr 3, 2009 10:20 pm
... Apologies as I remain *seriously* out of my element in this type of topic.. But.. In the same way that pics that have been pulled for violation or whatever...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Apr 4, 2009 8:41 pm
... Okay, I've added something like that to the site in a few places. ... It might be technically feasible but I don't know what to redirect people *to*. (I...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Apr 6, 2009 1:08 pm
Hyperlinked version on the blog: http://www.govtrack.us/blog/2009/04/06/site-updates/ ... Here are a few changes that happened on GovTrack recently: Social...
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David Breakdance
davidrussell...
Apr 28, 2009 9:15 pm
Hi Josh, David here. I believe this is the place where you requested we post issues, and if not, please correct me, thanks in advance. I believe this is a...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Apr 28, 2009 9:28 pm
There's no direct way to determine when a bill has a cosponsorship change, and there are too many bills to scan all of them. (Fetching pages at the maximum...
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Derek Willis
derekpwillis
Apr 29, 2009 9:30 am
FWIW, here's how we handle this issue: We use THOMAS' browse by type feature, which displays pages like this (this one contains HR 1207) ...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Apr 29, 2009 11:14 am
Thanks, Derek. That's great. I'm implementing that now. Still, if a cosponsor is added while another is removed so the total doesn't change, we still can't...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
May 3, 2009 12:16 am
Back in May I announced that I was starting a nifty experiment in having individuals write a group letter to Congress. I started up a letter on MixedInk.com to...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
May 5, 2009 4:34 pm
Hurrah. Josh ... Subject: [openhouseproject] FW: RELEASE: Senate to Expand Transparency of Senate Votes Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 12:25:23 -0400 From: Jones,...
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Peggy Garvin
pgrvn
May 5, 2009 4:59 pm
What sort of projects do folks have in mind to use the data once the feed of individual Senate roll call votes is posted? Peggy ...
