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A glossary for the United States.

congress-legislators

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

congress

Public domain data collectors for the work of Congress, including legislation, amendments, and votes.

contact-congress

Sending electronic written messages to members of Congress by reverse engineering their contact forms.

python-us

A package for easily working with US and state metadata

districts

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

citation

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

images

Public domain photos of Members of the United States Congress

congressional-record

A parser for the Congressional Record.

inspectors-general

Collecting reports from Inspectors General across the US federal government.

uscode

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

APIs

A Hub of US Government APIs

bill-nicknames

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

uslaw.link

A legal citation resolver.

unitedstates.github.io

Simple homepage for this organization.

acronym

A library of government acronyms

orgchart

An organization chart for the government of the United States.

federal_spending

Importer for US Spending data

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.

data-seal

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

licensing

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

rtyaml

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

congress-data

Legislative data from the congress repository

complaints

An index of formal complaint systems

wish-list

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

domains

Organizing and publishing the web domains of the US federal government

petitions

White House petition crawler.

data-releases

A listing of public data releases by federal agencies

BillMap

Utilities and applications for the FlatGov project by Demand Progress

legisworks-historical-statutes

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

am_mem_law

Documentation & data for the Library of Congress American Memory Century of Lawmaking collection.

agency-regions

A collection of data about how federal agencies divide their agency coverage geospatially

scotus-bound-volumes

chaplains

Text of prayers delivered by guest chaplains to House

reports

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

statements-of-administration-policy

An archive and scraper of White House Statements of Administration Policy

nabors

Bill numbers for early American statutes based on Nabors's Legislative Reference Checklist book.

congress-publish

Script to publish bill and amendment data as a JSON API.

congress-calendar

A calendar of Congressional events, like committee meetings and votes

data-issues

(NO LONGER USED.)