The Congressional Data Task Force held its first quarterly meeting of 2025 on March 11. As always, video of the meeting and the slides from presenters are available on the Legislative Branch Innovation Hub.
Continue Reading July 1, 2025
Congressional Data Task Force Recap: June 10, 2025
The Congressional Data Task Force held its second quarterly meeting of 2025 on June 10. The agenda for the meeting can be found here and the video here. The Congressional Hackathon will serve as its next meeting and will be held in September, date TBD.
Continue Reading May 13, 2025
Congressional Hackathon Official Report
The House of Representatives just published its report from the 2024 Congressional Hackathon here.
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.
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 calendar? An app that automatically summarizes written witness testimony and the committee memo into a two-page doc that includes draft member questions? A tracker that shows how busy each cafeteria is? Or collates all QFRs that relate to an agency?
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
The Congressional Research Service is looking for commercial products to help support its congressionally-directed efforts to improve its data analytics capabilities, according to a recently-released solicitation. The RFP provides insight into the types of tools and technology CRS is developing.
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 several Clerk-related projects, and the Clerk’s technology wish list.
Continue Reading July 29, 2024
Improving committee video access and archiving
Video capabilities for House Committee proceedings is the subject of an RFI originally published on June 20th and supplemented on July 22nd. It’s focused on the “potential to host and livestream official Congressional hearing videos, and to provide public access to archived hearing videos.” Comments are due by August 30th.
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