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Statement of principles

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Congress should be like an open book. The public has a right to know what its government is doing. It is the responsibility of Congress to make as much congressional information available for public use as quickly as it can, without restriction and in useful formats that facilitate the development of new information services and encourage re-publication. Congress should also create information in formats that facilitate its long-term use, re-use, and preservation. 3 Aggregates of congressional informatio...

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Report from the 2015 Legislative Data and Transparency Conference

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Congress should be like an open book. May 11, 2015. Report from the 2015 Legislative Data and Transparency Conference. The House of Representatives recently held its fourth annual Legislative Data and Transparency Conference. This blogpost covers highlights of the conference, but if you want more, here are video. For the day’s activities. In efforts to open up legislative data. The House is continuing to work on its amendment impact program (demonstrated at the 2014 conference. Which will show in real ti...

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Audio of CDC at SXSW on “Your Laws, Your Data”

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Congress should be like an open book. May 12, 2015. Audio of CDC at SXSW on “Your Laws, Your Data”. In March, several members of the Congressional Data Coalition spoke at SXSW in a panel entitled “ Your Laws, Your Data. 8221; (Daniel Schuman, Congressional Data Coalition co-chair; Molly Schwartz, associate fellow, R Street Institute; Molly Bohmer, data curator, Cato Institute; and Rebecca Williams, policy analyst, data.gov.). Audio from that conversation is now available. June 22, 2016. June 17, 2016.

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Ideas – Snow&Bones

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This is a collection of ideas I probably don’t have the time for. If they appeal to you, go for it. If you want me to flesh them out or actively try my hand at building them contact me on twitter. ASP (another stupid photo). Here’s a list of things that I thought were inspiring or were useful. Some Delaunay triangulation libraries –. Https:/ snorpey.github.io/triangulation/. Surface shaders and similar –. Http:/ matthew.wagerfield.com/flat-surface-shader/. Https:/ github.com/mrdoob/texgen.js. Does someth...

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Learning from #Hack4Congress

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Congress should be like an open book. May 21, 2015. The Tuesday, May 12 #Hack4Congress awards ceremony at the House of Representatives’ majestic Judiciary Committee hearing room was the culmination of a 6 month long effort to engage technologically savvy members of the public with making Congress more open and efficient. The three winners of congressional data hackathons in Cambridge. And Washington, D.C. Like us in one of the following five categories. Improving the Lawmaking Process. First, the hackath...

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Congressional data: A primer for non-geeks

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Congress should be like an open book. February 16, 2014. Congressional data: A primer for non-geeks. When the legislative branch started publishing bills and resolutions online in 1995, it was heralded as a revolution in government transparency. The public at last had easy and immediate access to the text of legislation and citizens could better hold their elected officials accountable. So what exactly is the difference between text and data? So what would this text-to-data transform mean for Congress?

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Guest User

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Congress should be like an open book. May 19, 2015. Emerging Standards of Parliamentary Accountability Panel Discussion. The 3rd International Open Government Data Conference. In Ottawa is part of a full week of open data events. Alongside the pre-conference events, the National Democratic Institute. And the Latin American Network on Legislative Transparency. As core partners in OpeningParliament.org. 2) Money, Politics and Transparency (presented by Lindsay Ferris, Sunlight Foundation). The discussion w...

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Daniel Schuman

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Congress should be like an open book. June 22, 2016. Report from the 2016 Legislative Data & Transparency Conference. Today the House of Representatives’ Committee on House Administration hosted its fifth annual Legislative Data and Transparency Conference. There’s too much to recap from the conference my notes, taken in real-time, are online. As is a video. Speaker Ryan: New Digitization Project. Speaker Ryan addressing the conference. Photo credit: Speaker Ryan’s office. While this sounds technical, wh...

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LegisLink

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Congress should be like an open book. June 11, 2015. Legislink Goes Back in Time (and Bicameral). The free roll call vote comparison tool Legislink. Has gone bicameral and back in time. It now is possible to compare roll call votes in the House. Going back to 1990. Previously. The site only worked for the House and only went back to 2003. May 13, 2015. New tool: Roll Call Vote Comparisons. The indefatigable Joe Carmel, creator of LegisLink. Material and prior work by Josh Tauberer (of GovTrack. Often tim...