We attempt to provide that information in our Congress API, but Peggy's right; it's a fluid situation. ...
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Peggy Garvin
pgrvn
Aug 19, 2010 3:09 pm
Great question. Vote schedules are not announced (officially) more than a week in advance and they are always subject to change. Looking forward to hearing any...
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davetorres001
Aug 19, 2010 2:36 pm
It would be helpful to me to be able to know when a bill in congress is going to be voted on before the actual vote. Is that schedule in the data somewhere....
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jul 3, 2010 7:29 pm
That's the first time that exact action has ever occurred. It's fixed. Thanks. - Josh Tauberer - CivicImpulse / GovTrack.us http://razor.occams.info |...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Jul 2, 2010 8:03 pm
I've spotted another <action> that should be a <vote>... In http://www.govtrack.us/data/us/111/bills/h3962.xml - <action...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jul 1, 2010 1:31 am
Hmmm. Off hand I'm not sure, and unfortunately this is not a good month for me for GovTrack (I'm trying to finish a PhD and today was told I have more work to...
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jeffdircksen
Jun 30, 2010 6:59 pm
Josh & All, I was wondering if anyone might have an explanation as to what might have happened to House bill 3791 and Senate bill 1403 in the bill index file....
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jun 19, 2010 1:06 am
Hey, Just a status update. A while back I started importing roll call votes from 1789 to 1989 from Professor Keith Poole. As per a thread not too long ago, the...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jun 16, 2010 5:44 pm
Normally when a photo is missing a box appears e.g. here for users to submit a photo: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=412382 I sometimes get a...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jun 16, 2010 5:41 pm
You can do that. Or look at the updated attribute at the root node (which reflects the last time the underlying source for the information was checked, which...
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Jack Angelo
jackangelo
Jun 16, 2010 5:30 pm
Eric, thanks. I will check it out. jack ... Jack Angelo jangelo42@......
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Jack
jackangelo
Jun 16, 2010 5:21 pm
Josh, How often do you update the photo subdirectory with changes e.g. Scott Brown? What is the process used? I there any way your user community can help?...
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Jack
jackangelo
Jun 16, 2010 5:17 pm
Some days I am so dense. Obviously I can just look at the last modified date for each bill in the bills subdirectory unless someone has a better idea that gets...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Jun 16, 2010 5:09 pm
You might find the Drumbone API useful for that, as it has a last_action_at timestamp that you can sort on. It doesn't support date range requests (yet), but...
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Jack
jackangelo
Jun 16, 2010 4:47 pm
Has anyone found a way to only pull bill data from bills that have had a last action update in say the last 24 hours? I would like to be able to create a list...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jun 14, 2010 1:11 pm
I think anyone interested in this is probably already on the sunlightlabs list, but belatedly just in case.... ... Subject: [sunlightlabs] The Drumbone API ...
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jlundigard
Jun 2, 2010 4:51 am
Hey Josh, I'm noticing some mal-formed XML in some of the bill text files. For example, on line 10750 of 111/h/h4173_rfs-eas.xml (this is a cmp of the...
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Eric Mill
konklone
May 30, 2010 11:48 am
Thanks, Josh!...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
May 29, 2010 6:00 pm
Thanks. There was a stray parenthesis in the text on THOMAS which of course tends to confuse the scraper. It's fixed now. - Josh Tauberer - CivicImpulse ...
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Eric Mill
konklone
May 28, 2010 7:00 pm
I've spotted what I think is an <action> that should be a <vote>, in the following House bill: http://www.govtrack.us/data/us/111/bills/h4899.xml <action...
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Harvey Frey
hsfrey
May 27, 2010 4:03 am
... Yes, please! It does need a little manual post-editing, since the section numbers in amended texts can be (and are) duplicates. Harvey...
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Neil M.
nabber00
May 27, 2010 3:56 am
Yes I wrote a quick Python script if anyone wants it just let me know. Neil...
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Harvey Frey
hsfrey
May 26, 2010 6:09 pm
Neil: Precisely! :-D Thank You! Did you write a script to do that? Manually it would surely have taken more than a little "free time" !! Harvey...
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Neil M.
nabber00
May 26, 2010 10:06 am
I had some free time, something like this? http://www.nabber.org/media/HR3590.html Neil...
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Harvey Frey
hsfrey
May 26, 2010 2:23 am
Hi Neil: Thanks for the response! I simply want to use the 'contents' section of a bill to hyperlink to the actual text paragraphs within the same bill, to...
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Neil M.
nabber00
May 26, 2010 1:59 am
I've got an old python script that takes the US Code text files (from http://uscode.house.gov), scans for references and outputs mediawiki formatted pages and...
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Eric Mill
konklone
May 26, 2010 1:32 am
Another five roll call files with legislator IDs of "0", h2010-86 through h2010-90. Not sure who that's for. Also, as a heads up, you've got another couple...
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Derek Willis
derekpwillis
May 25, 2010 10:51 pm
It already happened - he was sworn in and he was eligible for votes starting with 296. Derek...
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Eric Mill
konklone
May 25, 2010 9:20 pm
This article says it'll happen by 5pm today: http://watchdog.org/4001/hours-until-hawaii-congressman-elect-djou-is-sworn-in/ -- Eric...
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Harvey Frey
hsfrey
May 25, 2010 6:14 am
Josh: What I'm trying to do is clean it up so the section hierarchy is displayed, and add hyperlinks to the text from the TOC. This is an excerpt of the TOC....
