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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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/...
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...
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....
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...
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....
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...
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?...
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...
I think anyone interested in this is probably already on the sunlightlabs list, but belatedly just in case.... ... Subject: [sunlightlabs] The Drumbone API ...
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...
Just FYI, two issues I'm seeing: - Rolls from the keithpoole data source use a different naming scheme than we see elsewhere. e.g. 'h16.xml' rather than...
Just caught this - h2010-205 through h2010-211 all have a mysterious voter with no ID or district information: <voter id="0" vote="+" value="Yea" state=""...
There is a new version of Congress111 in the app store for anyone that is interested. The ui has been updated along with the Congressional database. There is...
This one's in people.xml. Bobby Jindal carries a PVS id (26879<http://votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=26879>) which has apparently been retired and replaced...
Hi govtrackers, We just discovered that there are some votesmart ids in people.xml that are appearing more than once, and a wrong when we check against ...
Hi all, In the XML for bills, I've gathered that <vote> actions are for passage votes, both voice and roll call, and don't include procedural votes. This is...
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...
