Today the Library of Congress began publishing (some) Congressional Research Service reports as HTML and making (some) reports accessible via API. See the announcement here.
Continue Reading March 3, 2025
Congressional Hackathon 6.0
Congressional Hackathon 6.0 took place on September 19, 2024 at the U.S. Capitol, co-hosted by Speaker Mike Johnson, Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and Chief Administrative Officer Catherine Szpindor. The event brought together congressional stakeholders to explore the role of digital platforms in the legislative process. After the event, organizers released video from the full proceedings as […]
Continue reading... March 3, 2025
Library of Congress Public Forum: September 8, 2024
The Library of Congress hosted a public discussion on Congress.gov on September 18, 2024, the fifth such forum it has held. You can watch video of the forum or read the Library of Congress’s summary of the discussion. We published a summary of prior forums from 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020. They are held pursuant […]
Continue reading... March 1, 2025
Congressional Job Listings as Data
The House of Representatives publishes job postings for personal, committee, and leadership offices in the form of a weekly email sent to subscribers. This means that if you’re a job seeker, you must read each PDF each week to see whether there’s a job that might interest you. And if you’re interested in monitoring job […]
Continue reading... February 13, 2025
Next Congressional Data Task Force Meeting Set for March 11, 2025
The next Congressional Data Task Force meeting will take place from 2-4pm ET on March 11, 2025. Follow this link to register, and watch for an agenda and other information to be published soon.
Continue reading... September 17, 2024
Congressional Hackathon and Congress.gov Forum This Week
Two of the biggest annual Congressional + technology events are both happening this week. On Wednesday, the Library of Congress will host a public forum on Congress.gov, and Thursday is the Congressional Hackathon. All the details are below
Continue reading... August 21, 2024
Technology ideas for Congress?
The Congressional Hackathon is three weeks away. In anticipation, I’m gathering ideas from congressional staff and the public on what tools and apps should be available inside the Legislative branch. What is your genius idea? Should there be a tool that allows staff to automatically schedule meetings with outside groups at free times on their […]
Continue reading... August 13, 2024
RSVP for Congressional Hackathon 6.0
Congress announced the Congressional Hackathon 6.0 will take place on September 19th from 1-6pm. Follow this link to RSVP. Here’s the announcement:
Continue reading... August 4, 2024
CRS building out data analytics capabilities
A recent solicitation from the Congressional Research Service provides insight about the tools and technology being developed by the Legislative branch agency.
Continue reading... July 29, 2024
The House Clerk’s technology project timelines
The transcript from House Admin’s hearing with the Clerk of the House was published this past week. It contains our first view of the questions for the record asked at the hearing, and there’s a lot of interesting Q&A. They cover the sunset of the advisory committee on the records of congress, a timeline for […]
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