Did my representative enact enough bills?
One common way legislator performance is measured is by how many laws a representative or senator got enacted. Like all quantitative measures, a count of bills enacted addresses only a small part of...
View ArticleIt wasn’t the least productive Congress after all
UPDATE: 12/25/2014: Because of a discrepancy in bill status as published by Congress, I over-counted by 1. There were 296 new laws in the 113th Congress, not 297. S. 2244 was published by Congress as...
View ArticleGovTrack’s Summer/Fall Updates
Here’s what’s been improved on GovTrack in the summer and fall of this year. Permalinks to individual paragraphs in bill text is now provided (example). We now ask for your congressional district so...
View ArticleReader Question: How many laws are there in the United States?
Edward asks: Hello, trying to find out how many laws there are within our federal government. Nowhere can I find an answer citing back to 1982 when a government program was implemented to find the...
View ArticleLaunching GovTrack Insider
Legislative data is only the beginning to understanding what Congress does and how it works. That’s why earlier this month GovTrack.us launched GovTrack Insider, a blog on Medium covering Congress’s...
View ArticleDiscontinuing state-level legislative tracking
Today I’m turning the lights off on GovTrack’s state-level legislative tracking pages. I added state-level legislative tracking in 2012, through a partnership with LegiNation, Inc. and LegiScan, Inc.,...
View ArticleUsers report GovTrack makes them more confident about approaching government
This summer GovTrack ran a survey of its users to learn more about the site’s effectiveness. The survey, run in collaboration with mySociety, revealed something pretty interesting: As peope use...
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GovTrack Updates for Spring/Summer 2015
Here’s what’s new on GovTrack this Spring & Summer: GovTrack Insider After running a summer-long experiment with intern Ben, we successfully funded the launch of GovTrack Insider, where we’ll be...
View ArticleNo Speaker since 1933 was elected with more than one vote from the minority...
With the Republican party now selecting their nominee for the next Speaker of the House, there’s been some discussion of whether a moderate Republican candidate could secure enough Democratic votes to...
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Presidential Candidates Miss Votes
Update: Check out our real-time presidential candidates missed votes tracker. ————— The 2016 presidential candidates are under a lot of scrutiny right now, and the five who are sitting senators even...
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