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It’s a shame you can’t sort the resolutions by number of Cosponsors, as that’d give a much better idea of which are viable. I don’t have a solid number, but I
by soneil 10y ago
It’s a shame you can’t sort the resolutions by number of Cosponsors, as that’d give a much better idea of which are viable.
I don’t have a solid number, but I get the impression a resolution is essentially dead out of the gate, if the number of Cosponsors is <50. It does seem to be an easy metric to get a rough idea of which bills have legs, and which are fluff.
- tmuir 10y agoIf the information is public, why can't it be scraped and sorted by a third party?
- lukeschlather 10y agohttps://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/browse https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/browse I don't see a "filter by sponsor count" but you can at least see the number of sponsors. They have "secret sauce" sorting which tries to surface more important bills and presumably uses number of cosponsors as a filter. I usually just look at the bill on Govtrack if I want to know what's going on with it.
- tyingq 10y agoYou can...the government even has code to help https://github.com/unitedstates/congress https://github.com/unitedstates/congress