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yeah, I've been thinking of this tool for about 7 years! First the entire US code would have to be on a git repo. And all the approved pull requests would also

yeah, I've been thinking of this tool for about 7 years! First the entire US code would have to be on a git repo. And all the approved pull requests would also be there and you could roll it back to the very beginning. All the contributors would be the politicians. And all proposed bills would show what they modified. And the branch they came from would have all the other things. I like it because it would also be open to discussion and scrutiny. But transparency means a different thing to those people.

roryisok 10y ago
That is a fantastic idea. I'm not even American and I'd be fascinated by that. Every country should have this. During election time you could put in a candidate's name and see their history, what they voted for, any legislation they implemented etc. Truly open government. There probably is something like this for the EU Parliament but buried somewhere that nobody can find
- literallycancer 10y ago
  I'd be surprised if this wasn't already done in most countries. Checked my own out of curiosity, and they log all proposals, all votes on them, and provide the amendment text including how the new text would look with the changes applied.[1][2] Granted, it's not as easy to go back and see all the changes to a certain law, but the data is there. 1 - http://www.psp.cz/sqw/historie.sqw?o=7&t=964 http://www.psp.cz/sqw/historie.sqw?o=7&t=964 2 - http://www.psp.cz/sqw/phlasa.sqw?o=7&s=54&pg=17 http://www.psp.cz/sqw/phlasa.sqw?o=7&s=54&pg=17
  - elastic_church 10y ago
    Yeah it really is not. Should also be standard affair for state and municipal governments and all regulators.
Drup 10y ago
This exist for (part of) the french legal code: https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil, https://github.com/Legilibre/Archeo-Lex https://github.com/Legilibre/Archeo-Lex This uses open data published by the governments at https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/ https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/
- lloeki 10y ago
  Hmm I was thinking about La Fabrique de la Loi[0] which uses GitLab and dataviz, didn't know about that GitHub one. [0]: http://www.lafabriquedelaloi.fr/articles.html?loi=pjl12-689 http://www.lafabriquedelaloi.fr/articles.html?loi=pjl12-689 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7841067 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7841067
chrisbennet 10y ago
If we had that, I'd like to see the real authors of the bill i.e. so you could see that Monsanto or G.E. or even the lobbying organization made the first draft or at least have it listed in the references.

roryisok 10y ago

That is a fantastic idea. I'm not even American and I'd be fascinated by that. Every country should have this. During election time you could put in a candidate's name and see their history, what they voted for, any legislation they implemented etc. Truly open government. There probably is something like this for the EU Parliament but buried somewhere that nobody can find

literallycancer 10y ago
I'd be surprised if this wasn't already done in most countries. Checked my own out of curiosity, and they log all proposals, all votes on them, and provide the amendment text including how the new text would look with the changes applied.[1][2] Granted, it's not as easy to go back and see all the changes to a certain law, but the data is there. 1 - http://www.psp.cz/sqw/historie.sqw?o=7&t=964 http://www.psp.cz/sqw/historie.sqw?o=7&t=964 2 - http://www.psp.cz/sqw/phlasa.sqw?o=7&s=54&pg=17 http://www.psp.cz/sqw/phlasa.sqw?o=7&s=54&pg=17
- elastic_church 10y ago
  Yeah it really is not. Should also be standard affair for state and municipal governments and all regulators.

Drup 10y ago

This exist for (part of) the french legal code: https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil, https://github.com/Legilibre/Archeo-Lex https://github.com/Legilibre/Archeo-Lex This uses open data published by the governments at https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/ https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/

lloeki 10y ago
Hmm I was thinking about La Fabrique de la Loi[0] which uses GitLab and dataviz, didn't know about that GitHub one. [0]: http://www.lafabriquedelaloi.fr/articles.html?loi=pjl12-689 http://www.lafabriquedelaloi.fr/articles.html?loi=pjl12-689 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7841067 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7841067

chrisbennet 10y ago

If we had that, I'd like to see the real authors of the bill i.e. so you could see that Monsanto or G.E. or even the lobbying organization made the first draft or at least have it listed in the references.