LouisDB.org
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Alex,
I'm glad to see you're starting to get more political data on Freebase!
There's a ton of records being made available in very developer-friendly formats at http://louisdb.org/ and some of the other Sunlight Foundation sites. It would be great to have a politico bot bringing in all kinds of useful congressional data.
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I'm currently working on pulling in the senate.gov roll call, voting summaries, and the thomas bill summaries. The only outstanding issue of reconciliation, which turns out to be a very big can of worms. I hope to have some temporary solution for that, enough that I can pull in all of the 110th's second session this weekend. Currently I'll only be puling in votes on the passage of bills, but in the future I hope to bring in the entire voting record.
To tide you over you should really check out the stuff that robert has been doing in his us congress domain. :) -
I've avoided using reconciliation, even though it's practically necessary for most valuable write based services.
If you're using python (or not), I'm sure myself and others would be appreciative if you would help us along once you figure it out. -
I am using Python. I may publish my parsing script somewhere soon, as for reconciliation, I'm still trying to get my head around all of it.
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I'm working out the kinks on a general purpose python reconciliation library. Can't really be used at request time for large chunks of text, but it should be useful for write programs.
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