You mentioned reverse engineering NYTime's tool 'Represent'; Have you heard of their 'Congress API'? http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/introducing-the-c

You mentioned reverse engineering NYTime's tool 'Represent'; Have you heard of their 'Congress API'? http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/introducing-the-congress-api/ http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/introducing-the-con... Maybe you can use this data also.