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Re: question about bill XML files

Josh Tauberer — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:46:47 GMT

In my experience, if a bill moves past being reported it moves very fast to being voted on. Here are some statistics for the current congress. Out of the 338

Re: question about bill XML files

Jesus Christ — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:37:40 GMT

Are there any plans for adding a state code that signifies debate has ended and a call for a vote has been made? There seems to be a gap between state codes

Re: question about bill XML files

Josh Tauberer — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:48:57 GMT

... It'll be the same as the first character of the type attribute. Don't forget resolutions ("hr", "hc", "hj"). ... For bills, there is a delay. It may go to

question about bill XML files

Jesus Christ — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:03:40 GMT

Hello, I'm reading the bill XML file wiki at http://wiki.govtrack.us/index.php?title=Bill_XML and I have two questions: 1. When a element's child node

Re: Seeking coder for research project using congressional district

David Airey — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:24:30 GMT

of course I'll help if I can David Airey, aka, MrWonderful ... From: davidnyc999 Subject: [govtrack] Seeking coder for research project

Seeking coder for research project using congressional district look

davidnyc999 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:56:01 GMT

Hi all, I am working on a research project and am looking for a coder to assist. I have a CSV file with individual address records that also contain latitude &

Re: GovTrack is now a project of Civic Impulse, LLC

Josh Tauberer — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:39:41 GMT

Thanks, Marcos and Frank! - Josh Tauberer - CivicImpulse http://razor.occams.info http://www.civicimpulse.com "Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation!

Re: GovTrack is now a project of Civic Impulse, LLC

Frank Stovicek — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:38:31 GMT

That's awesome! Congrats on moving your endeavors forward, Josh. ________________________________ From: govtrack@yahoogroups.com

Re: GovTrack is now a project of Civic Impulse, LLC

Marcos Medrano — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:38:30 GMT

Congrats Josh! and good luck! greets from Argentina, Marcos.

GovTrack is now a project of Civic Impulse, LLC

Josh Tauberer — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:00:21 GMT

FYI, I've formed a company called Civic Impulse (civicimpulse.com) and GovTrack is (hereby) now a project of that company. -- - Josh Tauberer - GovTrack.us

people.xml format change

Josh Tauberer — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:42:32 GMT

Hi all. I've just changed the format of people.xml. It's been bugging me for a few years. The old people.xml in data/us/SESSION/repstats continues to exist but

Server upgrade done

Josh Tauberer — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:43:12 GMT

Hi, all. GovTrack is on a new server that ought to be about 4 times more powerful than the last one. Dual quad core and tons of RAM. If you run into any

GovTrack downtime

Josh Tauberer — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:21:30 GMT

Hi, all. I'm upgrading GovTrack's hardware soon. In the next few days the site will go down... and then some time later will come back up. Since Congress is on

Re: Transparency Camp

Ilan Rabinovitch — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:42:24 GMT

I had planned to attend, but some personal matters have delayed my drive up to the point where it likely doesn't make sense to attend. I might still drive up

Re: Fixed URLs for House Bills

Josh Tauberer — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:41:55 GMT

Well if you come up with a new tool I'd be happy to host it. Have you see the bill text view on GovTrack since January-ish? It has some new permalinking