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The Django source code for the GovTrack.us website.
I just had a sudden flashback of update e-mails with maps that showed what the votes looked like on a map of the United States. What ever happened to those?
I don't have any live examples of CongressXML failing, but I know in the beginning users were being shown Ooops pages instead of the bill text they requested. If there's...
When you search for something and get a list of possibly-related bills (sorted descendingly by Congress), they are followed by a link that says "See more". This implies that you...
To differentiate between different types of GovTrack e-mails for easy filtering, it might be good to use a unique e-mail address and/or e-mail headers (cf. Bugzilla). For example, perhaps: [email protected]...
There are a number of redundant vendor-prefixed properties in the CSS that are not needed for modern browsers. In most cases, fallback in older browsers will not be too negatively...
I'm not sure how search is weighted, but it doesn't seem to prioritize the bill title over other text. For example, if I search for the "Disaster Relief Appropriations Act,...
Bill widgets are likely not to be used just for bills that are making their way through Congress. They may also be used to display bills that have passed Congress...
We should have some sort of algorithm that recommends bills to follow based on bills, topics, and people that you follow.
Just for fun, it might be cool to use the influence calculations to track any MoCs that are influenced by members of another party, to see if there are any...
It's not clear to me that there is any rhyme or reason to the sorting order of lists at this point. (I'm not even sure that it's listed by the...