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The Office of the House Clerk today announced that House floor summaries are now available for bulk download in XML. Each House session (roughly a calendar year) is available in one bulk file, going back to the 109th Congress (2005). Click here and select the “Download XML” tab to try it out.
The Library of Congress today unveiled beta.Congress.gov, a robust “new public beta site for accessing free, fact-based legislative information.”
House leaders today released the following statement today regarding House efforts to provide bulk access to legislative information.
The House of Representatives – which has been called the “most digitally inclined” in U.S. history – took another step today toward making bulk legislative information easily available to the public.
Speaker John Boehner today launched a redesigned Speaker.gov website featuring a more robust Speaker’s Blog, and emphasizing digital content like photos, videos, and live streams.
Now you can find live video from House committee hearings all on one simple website. The House Administration Committee and Library of Congress have joined forces on a new transparency project to: 1) provide “standardized and uniform live video-streaming” of House committee hearings on “one centralized website,” and 2) build an online video archive of committee hearings.
House Republicans are hosting a State of the Union (SOTU) digital fact check and social Q&A on GOP.gov/SOTUtonight. You can get involved right now by Tweeting your question for House Republicans using the #SOTUGOP hash tag or by visiting GOP.gov/SOTU. Here’s a brief video from Speaker Boehner on tonight’s event and how you can participate:
As part of the open government initiative led by Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), and in accordance with House rules, the Clerk of the House of Representatives has launched a new website (docs.House.gov) where legislative data “will be posted in an XML format,” reports CQ.
In accordance with House rules and an initiative led by Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), the House Administration Committee today adopted new data transparency standards that will make “all House bills, resolutions and legislative documents … available in XML in one centralized locati
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