New Congressional Data Available for Free Bulk Download: Bill Data 1973- , Members 1789-
From Legal Informatics news of:
- Congressional bill data, 1973 to present, scraped from THOMAS
- “Every bill has a JSON file, data.json, with fields related to a bill’s ID, status, names, sponsorship, amendments, and history.”
- congress-legislators: Data about Members of the United States Congress, 1789-Present, in YAML:
- Data come from several sources. “Each legislator record is grouped into four guaranteed parts: id’s which relate the record to other databases, name information (first, last, etc.), biographical information (birthday, gender), and terms served in Congress.”
- congress scrapers:
- The code of the scrapers used to harvest the data.
Of interest if you like U.S. history and/or recent events.
What other data would you combine with the data you find here?