In my experience, if a bill moves past being reported it moves very fast to being voted on. Here are some statistics for the current congress. Out of the 338...
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Margie Roswell
margieroswell
Dec 11, 2009 4:40 am
from the poliparse email list. ... From: Steven Clift <clift@...> Date: Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:08 PM Subject: [poliparse] Share Your Tools for...
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Jack Angelo
jackangelo
Dec 17, 2009 12:55 pm
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? ...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Dec 17, 2009 1:15 pm
... congressperson voted on a specific bill. For example, how did John Olver vote on bill HR3288? You can start with the XML file for the bill: ...
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stoub
Dec 17, 2009 10:44 pm
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...
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Derek Willis
derekpwillis
Dec 17, 2009 11:00 pm
The speaker of the house votes at his or her discretion. When Pelosi does not vote, the house simply ignores it. She typically votes only on questions of...
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stoub
Dec 17, 2009 11:21 pm
Understood, but why isn't this categorized as "Not Voting" along with the others that haven't voted? (And FYI that my math was wrong on Roll 968; Pelosi is the...
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Derek Willis
derekpwillis
Dec 17, 2009 11:33 pm
Essentially, because of custom and tradition. The others' discretion in voting is not a recognized tradition as is the Speaker. Data-wise, it's not a hard...
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stoub
Dec 18, 2009 10:54 am
Okey-doke. Thanks, Derek! --SET...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Dec 26, 2009 1:38 am
Hi, all. I'm making a change to the people.xml files on GovTrack. Previously, the role start and end dates were January 1 of the start year and December 31 of...
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Andrew Ross
jlundigard
Jan 7, 2010 6:43 pm
Hey Josh, Noticing govtrack is missing co-sponsor data an all bills (at least all of the bills I have seen): ...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jan 7, 2010 8:08 pm
Yah, I noticed this morning. THOMAS seems to have made a few changes in their formatting in the last week, and as it happened I did a full update of 111th Cong...
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Scott Lay
scott-lay
Jan 7, 2010 8:37 pm
At least Thomas hasn't screwed up all its dates with the new year like the California system has. All of the bills being amended are being given a file format...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jan 8, 2010 6:27 pm
Should be fixed now. Amendments also had broken. Hopefully we won't find any more surprises from THOMAS. They changed some "<br>" tags to "<br />" in their...
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Ben Woosley
benwoosley
Jan 8, 2010 10:57 pm
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...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jan 9, 2010 5:38 pm
Hi, Ben. We're definitely at the mercy of THOMAS here. If you can figure it out it would be great. All of the bills/*.xml files use data from THOMAS only....
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Ben Woosley
benwoosley
Jan 9, 2010 10:43 pm
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"...
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Derek Willis
derekpwillis
Jan 9, 2010 11:30 pm
Seems to be an issue with the original House data, which is also incomplete. http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1994/roll068.xml...
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Ben Woosley
benwoosley
Jan 16, 2010 4:03 pm
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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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jan 16, 2010 8:08 pm
Hey, Yes, I think normalizing the Type element would be a great idea. Once that's done, your second typeiness (I like that word) sounds like a good idea too....
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jan 16, 2010 11:30 pm
Ben, could you report this to the House webmaster? info.clerkweb@... I don't have a contact in the House. (I'd be obliged if you CC'd me if you...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jan 21, 2010 9:36 pm
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Tiffiniy Cheng
cooperwef
Jan 22, 2010 1:07 am
Congratulations, Josh. This sounds great and I am looking forward to it. -Tiffiniy ... -- Tiffiniy Cheng Congratulations, Josh. This sounds great and I am...
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Ben Woosley
benwoosley
Jan 27, 2010 12:30 pm
Here's my first set, focused on passage. These are pretty cut-and-dried. "On Passage" ... "Passage, Objections of the President Notwithstanding" ... "On...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jan 27, 2010 6:14 pm
If you've built any tools using GovTrack data, like Twitter streams, mobile apps, new websites, etc., I'd like to list it either here: ...
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John Factorial
john_factorial
Jan 28, 2010 2:29 pm
Josh, http://www.newballot.org is using GovTrack data and loving it. We're just getting off the ground and have many improvements to make, but we're already...
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John Factorial
john_factorial
Feb 2, 2010 11:35 pm
Hey Josh, OpenCongress has a "Hot Bills" section that highlights the most popular bills getting media attention today. Any idea how they're doing that with...
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Andrew Ross
jlundigard
Feb 3, 2010 1:34 am
John, The "Hot Bills" on OpenCongress are selected by one of our editorial staff. They are not indicated as such in the Govtrack data. However, you can get...
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John Factorial
john_factorial
Feb 3, 2010 2:37 pm
Nice! Thank you, Andy. -j...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Feb 7, 2010 12:52 am
... Great. Keep the list posted with any changes. I've added a link to http://www.govtrack.us/downstream.xpd. Josh...
