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The bills proposed by legislators are published in open data (thanks to years of advocacy by myself and others, but that's another story). If you want to read i
by joshdata 5y ago
The bills proposed by legislators are published in open data (thanks to years of advocacy by myself and others, but that's another story). If you want to read it and know who proposed it, this information has been readily available on the Internet since 1995. If you want to do some data mining, the data has been readily available to download in XML for about 5-10 years from Congress itself and for the decade before that from govtrack.us. If you're not doing the data mining already, that is about you and not about the availability of the data.
- ohashi 5y agoIs there a publicly accessible view where people can see bills, how they've changed and who proposed the changes then?
- nojito 5y agohttps://www.govtrack.us/ https://www.govtrack.us/
- smitty1e 5y ago> Today we’re the leading non-governmental source of legislative information and statistics. If they screwed up and left me in charge, Congress itself would live in a public git repo. All non-classified content. Let the data science folks see if any sense can be made of it.
- nojito 5y agoThey are just a wrapper over congress.gov apis https://www.congress.gov/help/using-data-offsite https://www.congress.gov/help/using-data-offsite
- joshdata 5y agoIf someone put you in charge, you probably would not know how to do the thing you're imagining. (For example, "classified" doesn't really apply to Congress. That's an executive branch thing. So you're already on the wrong track.) Don't fool yourself that it's just a matter of having a bright idea that's the difference between the world as it is and the world as you want it.
- smitty1e 5y agoI can't refute "you" in the singular. Nor should a solo ninja effort be acceptable. The post was operating at the "decree", no implementation level.
- Ankaios 5y agohttps://www.congress.gov/ https://www.congress.gov/ As an example of the information on each bill, here's the entry for last year's American Rescue Plan Act: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1319 https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1319