Two recommendations of our report have been moved forward in the FY09 omnibus appropriations bill (H.R. 1105) which cleared the Senate yesterday and the House last month. The first recommendation in our chapter on legislative databases was that the Library of Congress make its bill status database directly available to the public and that the [...]
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Bulk data downloads approved in the omnibus spending bill (success!)
March 11th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Tags: Congress · GPO · Structured Data · appropriations · approps · clerk of the house · govtrack · legislation · library of congress · maplight · openhouseproject
Sunlight, GovTrack, and MapLight at Princeton
January 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Last week, Princeton’s Center for Information and Technology Policy had a conference on “Computing in the Cloud“, and Josh Tauberer (of GovTrack.us), Andrew Page (of MapLight.org), and me (John Wonderlich) got to be on a panel together.
Here’s a video of our panel; the other panels are accessible here.
The main thing I took away from the [...]
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