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congress-legislators

Members of the United States Congress, 1789-Present, in YAML/JSON/CSV, as well as committees, presidents, and vice presidents.
Python
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congress

Public domain data collectors for the work of Congress, including legislation, amendments, and votes.
Python
847
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contact-congress

Sending electronic written messages to members of Congress by reverse engineering their contact forms.
Python
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python-us

A package for easily working with US and state metadata
Python
475
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districts

GeoJSON and other shape files for the federal legislative districts of the US.
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citation

Legal citation extractor, via command line, JavaScript, or HTTP. See a live example at:
JavaScript
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images

Public domain photos of Members of the United States Congress
Python
173
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congressional-record

A parser for the Congressional Record.
HTML
119
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inspectors-general

Collecting reports from Inspectors General across the US federal government.
Python
104
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10

uscode

A working parser for the US Code's hierarchy, and a work-in-progress parser for the full content.
Python
101
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APIs

A Hub of US Government APIs
CSS
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bill-nicknames

Table of popular nicknames and keywords for bills, curated manually.
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uslaw.link

A legal citation resolver.
JavaScript
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unitedstates.github.io

Simple homepage for this organization.
CSS
50
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glossary

A glossary for the United States.
Ruby
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acronym

A library of government acronyms
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orgchart

An organization chart for the government of the United States.
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federal_spending

Importer for US Spending data
Python
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congress-votes-servo

Tracking changes to the official U.S. House and Senate roll call votes XML data files. Monitored hourly-ish by @GovTrack/@JoshData.
HTML
33
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data-seal

Data Seal is a lightweight, UELMA-compliant data authentication service.
HTML
32
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21

licensing

Best practices language for making open government data "license-free".
HTML
27
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22

rtyaml

All the annoying stuff we had to do to make YAML usable.
Python
27
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23

congress-data

Legislative data from the congress repository
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24

complaints

An index of formal complaint systems
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25

wish-list

A wish list for this organization, open an Issue to discuss what we can add. Derived from a News Foo session.
16
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26

domains

Organizing and publishing the web domains of the US federal government
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27

petitions

White House petition crawler.
Python
15
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28

data-releases

A listing of public data releases by federal agencies
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BillMap

Utilities and applications for the FlatGov project by Demand Progress
JavaScript
14
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legisworks-historical-statutes

Metadata and per-statute PDFs for the U.S. Statutes at Large through volume 64 (1789-1951).
Python
14
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am_mem_law

Documentation & data for the Library of Congress American Memory Century of Lawmaking collection.
Python
12
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agency-regions

A collection of data about how federal agencies divide their agency coverage geospatially
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scotus-bound-volumes

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chaplains

Text of prayers delivered by guest chaplains to House
Python
11
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reports

Storage space for public US reports which need a place to go.
HTML
10
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36

statements-of-administration-policy

An archive and scraper of White House Statements of Administration Policy
Python
9
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37

nabors

Bill numbers for early American statutes based on Nabors's Legislative Reference Checklist book.
Python
8
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congress-publish

Script to publish bill and amendment data as a JSON API.
Python
8
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congress-calendar

A calendar of Congressional events, like committee meetings and votes
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data-issues

(NO LONGER USED.)
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