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Public domain data collectors for the work of Congress, including legislation, amendments, and votes.

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2017-02-15 · latest 2025-06-06

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  1. …data available about bills (including votes, attachments, etc.), this is a great place to start: https://github.com/unitedstates/congress There's excellent documentation on the formats and how to access all the data.
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    Congress: The Git Repo
    story by chilipepperhott · 2024-09-30 · 0 comments
  3. It's just everything from https://github.com/unitedstates/congress The homepage just shows the most recent data (it auto updates every 6 hours). I plan to add more filters and things to make it more useful. I've only spent a few Sundays on…
  4. You can...the government even has code to help https://github.com/unitedstates/congress