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                                            Joshua Tauberer

Include text of amendments voted on

Just the metadata first. Eric mentioned to me yesterday that Sunlight might be working on getting amendment text soon.

Trouble downloading the github package

Hi, GovTrack isn't installable using pip. There are step-by-step instructions in the project's README. But there are a lot of moving pieces in GovTrack and to recreate just the analysis,...

BigQuery Public Data

It's not really "my" data. :) All of the raw data is posted for reuse and you can [generate it](https://github.com/unitedstates/congress) too. You should give BigQuery a shot.

RSS returns 20 items or less for All Active Legislation

Hello there. It's by design. I think feed readers will bail if feeds get too long, and since feed readers typically check the feed often, I guess I assumed that...

Consider switching to Bioguide ID as primary key for legislators

Bioguide IDs are not always minted fast enough when there are new legislators.

Bug: Adding Multiple Items to Lists

Hi there. Could you try it again? I corrected a bug that had to do with the creation of new lists and I'm wondering if that might have fixed this...

Use unique e-mail address or headers for tracker updates

The only other email we send is account verifications. What's the use case?

Location-based messages do not take into account user's tracking lists

I'll probably turn it off soon. It was an experiment to see if geocoding by IP on-the-fly was possible/reliable. I have some ideas for other ways to use this besides...

Is there a script to generate these files?

It's this one: https://github.com/unitedstates/congress

Collapse bill subjects to allow better inter-Congress navigation

The Library of Congress changed their subjects starting with the 111th Congress. So it's one set of terms from 111th forward, and a different set 110th and before. I'm not...