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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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....
909
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...
910
Derek Willis
derekpwillis
Aug 19, 2010 3:13 pm
We attempt to provide that information in our Congress API, but Peggy's right; it's a fluid situation. ...
911
Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Aug 25, 2010 3:11 pm
Hey all, I've joined a former congressional staffer and a (soon to be former) lobbyist on a new project to fix the cacophony-driven channels constituents are...
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Harvey Frey
hsfrey
Aug 25, 2010 5:47 pm
Josh: One thing that's bugged me about congressional email sites is that they usually bounce or refuse to respond to any message that comes from outside the...
913
Eric Mill
konklone
Aug 25, 2010 6:15 pm
I don't think it suggests that all they care about is re-election; what it means is that they have different roles, and there are different ways to communicate...
914
Joshua Tauberer/GovTr...
tauberer
Aug 25, 2010 6:16 pm
I sympathize. The trouble is that we can't force them to read things they don't want to read. So, as you said, if we help them process communications better...
915
Francis
francisgavila
Sep 13, 2010 3:53 pm
Hello there. I'm the developer for washingtonwatch.com and have done quite a bit of work on gathering data for earmarks. (http://washingtonwatch.com/earmarks/...
916
Joshua Tauberer/GovTr...
tauberer
Sep 13, 2010 8:23 pm
Indeed! It is a mess. The farthest I got contacting cbo was sending an email and getting no response. And my ask wasn't even machine readable cost estimates,...
917
Eric Mill
konklone
Sep 30, 2010 10:15 pm
The summaries of bills are now pulling in some crazy footer text from the LOC website. Example: http://www.govtrack.us/data/us/111/bills/h4213.xml The footer...
918
Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Oct 11, 2010 2:11 pm
Thanks. It should be fixed in the 111th Congress, and I'm re-parsing backwards now. - Josh Tauberer - CivicImpulse / GovTrack.us http://razor.occams.info |...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Oct 11, 2010 5:43 pm
Thanks for looking into this, though I'm not sure it's fixed in the 111th Congress yet: http://www.govtrack.us/data/us/111/bills/s3816.xml ...
920
Eric Mill
konklone
Oct 13, 2010 5:32 pm
There's a recent "ping pong" vote that didn't get picked up as one on H.R. 553: http://www.govtrack.us/data/us/111/bills/h553.xml The third vote, the House...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Oct 13, 2010 5:35 pm
Got it. - Josh Tauberer - CivicImpulse / GovTrack.us http://razor.occams.info | www.govtrack.us | civicimpulse.com "Members of both sides are reminded not to...
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 ...
925
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...
929
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...
932
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...
933
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 |...
