http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/ GovTrack.us Discussion List Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:35:10 GMT Josh Tauberer http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1190 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1190 Hi, I would recommend using the CapitolWords API instead. http://capitolwords.org/api/1/ The Congressional Record data on GovTrack hasn't been properly Sun, 02 Jun 2013 11:36:14 GMT zhynes16 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1189 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1189 Just a quick note: It seems like the ID assigned to Bud Shuster "400374" is used as the author ID for speeches made by Bill Shuster (his son). Looking around Thu, 23 May 2013 15:17:37 GMT Josh Tauberer http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1188 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1188 ... The 113th Congress bill & vote data on GovTrack is derived entirely from the unitedstates/congress project, so if you're using the GovTrack data you're Wed, 22 May 2013 17:58:50 GMT Eric Mill http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1187 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1187 I think we just discussed the vote discrepancy in our issue tracker: https://github.com/unitedstates/congress/issues/70 Basically, bill data from THOMAS (which Wed, 22 May 2013 17:50:12 GMT telos3k http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1186 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1186 What's the current thinking on having github.com/unitedstates/congress replace the traditional govtrack bill data, as congress-legislators replaced people.xml? Tue, 21 May 2013 15:35:20 GMT Josh Tauberer http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1185 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1185 Hi, Dave. As for the download starting automatically, it's the new normal. I found that annoying whenever I have to test that the API is working, or when I'm Tue, 21 May 2013 15:22:57 GMT davem1901 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1184 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1184 First can't give enough praise to GovTrack and the phenomenal work they do. Been using the site for a few years now but have only recently expanding my use of Mon, 06 May 2013 23:03:27 GMT Eric Mill http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1183 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1183 Looking through FDSys' bill collection (which is the official public source for bill XML), for the 105th Mon, 06 May 2013 21:16:50 GMT zhynes16 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1182 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1182 Are the clean XML versions of bill full texts currently unavailable for Congresses prior to the 108th Congress? I am trying to pull out the cross-references to Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:56:53 GMT Josh Tauberer http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1181 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1181 Thanks! - Josh Tauberer (@JoshData) http://razor.occams.info Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:43:06 GMT Islam Sharabash http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1180 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1180 Hi Josh, Thanks for the link, also thanks for putting together govtrack, it's pretty awesome! Cheers, Islam ... -- Islam Sharabash 217.377.9657 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:54:16 GMT Josh Tauberer http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1179 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1179 Hi, Islam. ... That's right. It's not possible to symlink that directory. It's not really supposed to be there. If you browsed it over http, you may have Fri, 26 Apr 2013 01:04:22 GMT ijustwanttoposttoamailinglisthel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1178 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1178 I tried rsyncing into the congress directory but couldn't. It appears it's a symlink outside of the tree. I am new to rsync, so maybe I did something wrong, Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:23:02 GMT Josh Tauberer http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1177 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1177 ... What URL? - Josh Tauberer (@JoshData) http://razor.occams.info Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:21:42 GMT Josh Tauberer http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1176 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/govtrack/message/1176 Hi, Abbot. I've just added committee and committee membership API endpoints. So you can find committees that way. For finding bills, you can filter using