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Re:Announcing the New York Times Congress API by LogicHoleFlaw on Thursday January 08, 2009 @02:53PM (#425511)
Sweet. Now cross-reference this against OpenSecrets and we're getting somewhere.

Then, if we can just get version tracking on the edits to bills we might find some fascinating correlations. The politicians would probably be partial to git, the Senate being full of them.

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Re:Announcing the New York Times Congress API by sachinag on Thursday January 08, 2009 @06:32PM (#425862)
The WaPo has this already: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/ [Edit: I was wrong; it does not include contribution data. Boo.]

(Adrian Holovaty did this when he was there.)

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Re:Announcing the New York Times Congress API by Harkins on Thursday January 08, 2009 @10:34PM (#426130)
I maintain this Congress app and others. Contributer data would be nice, but it's not something we're currently planning.

Ideas welcome anytime, though. They all go on the big todo list that makes us feel tiny.

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