Is there a delay between when a bill is signed into law, and gets a <signed> item in its <actions> history, and when it gets an <enacted> item? I ask because...
Hello, I believe I have found an error in one of the source files: http://www.govtrack.us/data/us/111/votes.all.index.xml Some of the voting records seem to...
Does anyone know the definition of the two numeric columns in this file? The PersonID and the text column is obvious, but the other two aren't, though I...
I'm just starting to play with the GovTrack data, and I noticed that the committees table doesn't include a fully populated role attribute. The attribute...
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A while back I mentioned that I'd be removing from the GovTrack source XML data any date attributes in the Unix time format (seconds from 1/1/1970), which have...
Is there a way to notice that the people.xml dataset has changed and what changed. Currently I am uploading the file once a week to make sure I am current but...
So I'm applying some logic to the rolls, with the expectation that roll type being the key arbiter of meaning, i.e. what the roll means wrt the bill/amendment...
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So I'm adding constraints to my DB and found what seems to be a singular case where a Roll is missing data: It's 103/rolls/h1994-68.xml: <roll where="house"...
So I'm doing a bulk import of bills and finding a number of incongruent committee references under the bill committee activity section which aren't accounted...
Hi all. I've just changed the format of people.xml. It's been bugging me for a few years. The old people.xml in data/us/SESSION/repstats continues to exist but...
I was looking at a few recent votes and didn't see Pelosi listed anywhere, even in the Not Voting category. The issue seems to be upstream: I can't find Pelosi...
is there a RESTful way to get xml that tells me how a specific congressperson voted on a specific bill. For example, how did John Olver vote on bill HR3288? ...
Hello, I'm reading the bill XML file wiki at http://wiki.govtrack.us/index.php?title=Bill_XML and I have two questions: 1. When a <status> element's child node...
Hi all, I am working on a research project and am looking for a coder to assist. I have a CSV file with individual address records that also contain latitude &...
FYI, I've formed a company called Civic Impulse (civicimpulse.com) and GovTrack is (hereby) now a project of that company. -- - Josh Tauberer - GovTrack.us ...
Hi, all. GovTrack is on a new server that ought to be about 4 times more powerful than the last one. Dual quad core and tons of RAM. If you run into any...
Hi, all. I'm upgrading GovTrack's hardware soon. In the next few days the site will go down... and then some time later will come back up. Since Congress is on...
Josh et al: Is there someplace that HTML version of house bills (eg: HR3200) are available with fixed URLs? I'd like to massage the main table of contents to...
Hi, I recently created a Facebook application that relies on the GovTrack API. It allows people to search for bills, vote on them, post them to their walls,...
Hello, I noticed today that the ids and data for Rep. Donna Christensen (aka Donna Christian-Green ?) appears to be inconsistent, and thought the list might be...
Since I put some funding into this, I hope some people will help out... - Josh Tauberer - GovTrack.us http://razor.occams.info "Yields falsehood when preceded...
