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hamstar / legislat0r

An open source system for crowdsourcing creation and analysis of legislature
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Import existing, pending legislation? #30

Closed fierce-bad-squirrel closed 12 years ago

fierce-bad-squirrel commented 12 years ago

Would it be feasible to pull published, pending bills from thomas . loc . gov (Library of Congress Thomas legislation database) into Legislat0r? Maybe through an automated script?

This would let individuals comment on and critique pending legislation, as well as crowd-sourced proposed legislation. It could become a great resource for individuals, organizations, businesses and even legislators comment on and review bills through a centralized resource.

(Not sure how to add a label.)

OLawD commented 12 years ago

yes, i pointed hamstar in the direction of sites like opencongress and votetocracy that do such things already. we of course would want to do it in a unique way but it goes to show we don't need to build that section from the ground up since there are already open APIs available for it.

hamstar commented 12 years ago

There's a list of places to pull data from in #41

hamstar commented 12 years ago

Created activity #41 and category import