Daniel Schuman

That is largely but not entirely true. Very infrequently committees will have meetings outside of DC. Usually this is done in the home district of the committee chairman, but sometime...

Another way to infer: the language "field hearing" will occur in the title (I believe) if it is off-site. Perhaps not as reliable, but belt and suspenders? On Tue, Feb...

Since the discussion is ended, I will refrain from mentioning that hearings taking place out of DC likely will have the phrase "field hearing" in their title. FWIW. On Wed,...

My suspicion is that changes in committee names will be reflected in SUDOC numbers, kept up to date by librarians for over 100 years. http://www.fdlp.gov/cataloging/856-sudoc-classification-scheme On Fri, Aug 9, 2013...

Yes, I agree. To state the obvious, with the use of consistent identifiers, you can see how a committee renames itself over time. I believe they keep the defunct committees...

You could match the acronyms possibly generated against a dictionary list.... :) Daniel Daniel Schuman Director | Advisory Committee on Transparencyhttp://transparencycaucus.org/ Policy Counsel | The Sunlight Foundation http://sunlightfoundation.com/ o: 202-742-1520...

My question was both -- general archiving of the landing pages as well as the specific pages for bills and other legislative info. I did not know about the THOMAS...

The spreadsheet linked to is being managed by me, and I'm confirming with every member whether it's their official (and not political) account. I don't scale, alas. On Tue, Nov...

There's also the new official congress.gov API, which also should have a list of current members of the House and Senate. https://www.congress.gov/help/using-data-offsite Message ID: ***@***.***

Let me know if we should move to a more modern machine. Happy to be available to work with you on it. Thanks for looking at it, Josh. On Sun,...