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What sucks is this would never happen in the US. The reason being that most of the earmarks and so forth are added to bills after they're passed. And not only t

What sucks is this would never happen in the US. The reason being that most of the earmarks and so forth are added to bills after they're passed. And not only that, they're added as images in tiny fonts so that they can't even be scanned in. God bless America.

drstewart 14y ago
You mean except for this? https://github.com/divegeek/uscode https://github.com/divegeek/uscode Honest question, did you even search for reasons that this would be feasible or did you just rush in to make an anti-US comment?
dfc 14y ago
Unfortunately I do not remember the link to the GPO page on xml or the XML page on thomas.loc.gov. However there are an awful lot of government documents in xml format. What specifically are you missing? For an interesting site that is using some of the new federal technology openess initiatives (for lack of a better term) take a look at: http://www.govtrack.us/ http://www.govtrack.us/ . Carl Malamud also has an extensive collection of machine readable government documents but sadly http://bulk.resource.org/ http://bulk.resource.org/ and http://public.resource.org/ http://public.resource.org/ seem to be down. Resources: Gov XML initiative: http://xml.gov/ http://xml.gov/ House XML Initiative: http://xml.house.gov/ http://xml.house.gov/ Code of Federal Regulations (XML format): http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/bulkdata/CFR http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/bulkdata/CFR e.g: CFR Chapter 12 (regulation of banks. 12cfr30 is customer information security at banks if you are interested) http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2012-title12-vol1/xml/CFR-2012-title12-vol1-chapI.xml http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2012-title12-vol1/xml/CFR-2... GovTracks About / Data Sources Page: http://www.govtrack.us/about http://www.govtrack.us/about EDITED: To include links to the Code of Federal Regulations
guelo 14y ago
No part of your comment is true.

drstewart 14y ago

You mean except for this? https://github.com/divegeek/uscode https://github.com/divegeek/uscode Honest question, did you even search for reasons that this would be feasible or did you just rush in to make an anti-US comment?

dfc 14y ago

Unfortunately I do not remember the link to the GPO page on xml or the XML page on thomas.loc.gov. However there are an awful lot of government documents in xml format. What specifically are you missing? For an interesting site that is using some of the new federal technology openess initiatives (for lack of a better term) take a look at: http://www.govtrack.us/ http://www.govtrack.us/ . Carl Malamud also has an extensive collection of machine readable government documents but sadly http://bulk.resource.org/ http://bulk.resource.org/ and http://public.resource.org/ http://public.resource.org/ seem to be down. Resources: Gov XML initiative: http://xml.gov/ http://xml.gov/ House XML Initiative: http://xml.house.gov/ http://xml.house.gov/ Code of Federal Regulations (XML format): http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/bulkdata/CFR http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/bulkdata/CFR e.g: CFR Chapter 12 (regulation of banks. 12cfr30 is customer information security at banks if you are interested) http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2012-title12-vol1/xml/CFR-2012-title12-vol1-chapI.xml http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2012-title12-vol1/xml/CFR-2... GovTracks About / Data Sources Page: http://www.govtrack.us/about http://www.govtrack.us/about EDITED: To include links to the Code of Federal Regulations

guelo 14y ago

No part of your comment is true.