Hi all, I want to share with you a new project that I am working on, called POPVOX.com <http://www.POPVOX.com>. This is a new direction for me, going away from...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Nov 11, 2010 8:11 pm
Hi all, Does GovTrack have any plans to add Treaties and Presidential Nominations to its set of structured data? Or, is it there and I'm missing it? I'm ...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Nov 11, 2010 10:34 pm
No plans. - Josh Tauberer - CivicImpulse / GovTrack.us http://razor.occams.info | www.govtrack.us | civicimpulse.com "Members of both sides are reminded not to...
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Derek Willis
derekpwillis
Nov 17, 2010 10:58 pm
Just a heads-up to Josh and others using the vote files: two Democratic senators were sworn in yesterday and voted today. Joe Manchin of WV and Chris Coons of...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Nov 19, 2010 7:07 pm
Thanks, especially Jeffrey at MAPLight for keeping me up to date. Everything should be good now. - Josh Tauberer - CivicImpulse / GovTrack.us ...
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Jeff Dircksen
jeffdircksen
Dec 1, 2010 7:38 pm
My apologies if this is a simple question, but I'm looking for suggestions, directions, tips to do the following: download all House and Senate roll call...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Dec 3, 2010 12:23 am
The roll calls for 2010 are all here (the ones starting with "h2010-" and "s2010-"): http://www.govtrack.us/data/us/111/rolls/ I think that Access has some...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Dec 4, 2010 9:33 pm
Hey all, On account of wikispam, I've moved all of the current documentation to http://www.govtrack.us/developers/data.xpd and ...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Dec 13, 2010 9:48 pm
This may pose a risk to your scrapers. Though the Dublin Core elements may simplify getting at least those elements. Also, I'm not entirely sure, but I think...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Dec 13, 2010 10:17 pm
Yep, I can already see a breakage - THOMAS lists the "Latest Title" (which just changed wording from "Title") of HR 4853 (the tax-cut compromise bill) as the...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Dec 13, 2010 10:23 pm
Aaaaand, another breakage in the same bill, not sure if it's related to THOMAS' changes or not. Hope my repeated emails aren't too aggravating. :) There's an...
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Jack Angelo
jackangelo
Dec 17, 2010 5:50 pm
I noticed this morning that house bill 1064 does not have a title. On Thomas.gov it appears to be: To provide for evidence-based and promising practices...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Dec 17, 2010 11:39 pm
I'm not sure what was going on with that bill. The revised title "Middle Class..." ought to have been listed on the Titles page, which is where GovTrack picks...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Dec 17, 2010 11:40 pm
I don't know what happened but a re-scan took care of it. - Josh Tauberer - CivicImpulse / GovTrack.us http://razor.occams.info | www.govtrack.us |...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Dec 18, 2010 3:56 am
Cool, thanks. Yeah, the best thing I could think of for the title parser would be to look at the "Latest Title" element, and if that title appears nowhere in...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Dec 27, 2010 3:48 am
Longer version here: http://www.govtrack.us/blog/2010/12/26/repstats/ Today I am publishing two new types of statistics for understanding the behavioral...
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Aaron Swartz
aaronswartz
Dec 27, 2010 7:15 pm
I assume a big part is because Reid introduces bills and Pelosi doesn't. I'm not sure why that is, though. I think part of it is because the Speaker is...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Dec 30, 2010 3:47 pm
I guess that must be it. The other partisan majority leadership positions are also relatively depressed compared to what's seen in the Senate, though. - Josh...
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David Steinbrunner
elementcarbon
Jan 3, 2011 3:40 pm
Hello, I have recently started working with the govtrack data, so I would like to start out by saying thanks for the great resource. While working with the...
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Steve Toub
stoub
Jan 3, 2011 4:41 pm
Hi David-- I struggled with this stuff as well when I was QAing some vote data. I'm not up on all the rules and jargon but in my mind I eventually assume the...
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Derek Willis
derekpwillis
Jan 3, 2011 4:56 pm
Steve's answer is good, but permit me to elaborate: In the WaPo db (which I helped build), there are the following options for a member's vote: 1. Yes/No 2....
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jeffdircksen
Jan 3, 2011 11:11 pm
I've tried importing the roll call data into both Excel and Access without much luck. Anyone know of a programmer who knows Access and who can work with XML...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Jan 3, 2011 11:11 pm
On HR 2965, both the final roll call vote in the House and Senate appear as <action> tags: http://www.govtrack.us/data/us/111/bills/h2965.xml -- Eric...
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David Steinbrunner
elementcarbon
Jan 4, 2011 3:30 pm
... Well I did find an issue which cleans my results up a bit. My code was not expecting votes that did not contain the typical vote keys. This clears up my...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jan 5, 2011 4:11 am
Thanks for looking so closely into this everyone. Everything sounded ... That doesn't sound right. (I'm assuming there were votes in the intervening time...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jan 5, 2011 4:16 am
Hey all. Thanks to some help from Jeffrey and Emilie at MAPLight, the two people.xml files are updated for the 112th Congress (the current-only people.xml file...
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David Steinbrunner
elementcarbon
Jan 5, 2011 2:46 pm
... Early on I thought I had an off by one in my determining the date stuff myself but my findings, at least in this case, show that it is not the issue. I...
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Derek Willis
derekpwillis
Jan 5, 2011 2:58 pm
Now I remember this situation - the Clerk's office did not publish Gary Miller's votes in the initial portion of the 111th congress. He did vote, but the...
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Derek Willis
derekpwillis
Jan 6, 2011 3:05 pm
I've contacted the Clerk's office before about this issue but it's still there, so take that for what it's worth. I should note that in Gary Miller's case, as...
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David Steinbrunner
elementcarbon
Jan 6, 2011 3:39 pm
... Ok, looking at other examples in my speardsheets I'm seeing how vacancies and day of taking office appear to account for most of the issue but I'm not done...
