The Congressional Bulk Data Task force announced its upcoming quarterly meeting with take place on Tuesday, June 21, from 2-4 p.m. To join the meeting, register on its webpage. On the agenda: Welcome and Background (Meeting starts at 2:01/2:02) Reports/Presentations/Updates from civil society organizations Reports/Presentations/Updates from our Legislative Branch organizations: LOC, GPO, House Clerk, House […]
Continue reading... May 16, 2022
Advisory Committee on Records of Congress Sets Meeting for June 10, 2022
The Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress has announced its semi-annual meeting on June 10th, 2022, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 pm ET. To attend the meeting, you must RSVP to archives@mail.house.gov by June 3rd. More details about the ACRC meeting are here.
Continue reading... April 8, 2022
Congressional Hackathon 4.0
On Wednesday, April 6th, 2022, Congress held the Fourth Congressional Hackathon, co-hosted by Majority Leader Hoyer and Minority Leader McCarthy. This blogpost is a stub to gather information from the hackathon. We will update it when we have some time. The format of the hackathon was:
Continue reading... March 22, 2022
Project ideas for the Congressional Hackathon
The fourth Congressional Hackathon will be held on April 6th, and in advance of the proceedings we’ve updated our list of project ideas and resources for the hackathon. The information is published as a Google document, so please feel encouraged to add your own ideas or add content to existing ones. The ideas, including a […]
Continue reading... March 21, 2022
Recap of the March 2022 Bulk Data Task Force Meeting
Last Thursday, March 10, the Bulk Data Task Force held its first quarterly meeting of 2022. The virtual meeting, hosted by the House Clerk’s office, featured presentations from civil society representatives and updates from several legislative branch organizations including GPO, the Library of Congress, the House CAO, the House Clerk, Majority Leader Hoyer’s office, the […]
Continue reading... March 21, 2022
Save the Date: Fourth Congressional Hackathon on April 6
The Fourth Congressional Hackathon will be held (in person) on Wednesday, April 6 from 1 – 6 PM in the CVC Auditorium of the Capitol Building. Majority Leader Hoyer and Minority Leader McCarthy will co-host. Register to hack here. The last congressional hackathon was held way back in 2017. You can read our recap here. (And if […]
Continue reading... February 23, 2022
Save the Date: BDTF Meetings on March 10 and June 9
The next Bulk Data Task Force meeting will be held on Zoom on Thursday, March 10, from 2 – 3:30 EST. The second quarter meeting is scheduled for Thursday, June 9, also from 2 – 3:30 EST. Registration for the March 10th event is now online here. The agenda is as follows: Welcome and Background (Meeting […]
Continue reading... January 6, 2022
Video from all Senate Committee Proceedings In One Place
The United States Senate does not maintain a centralized repository for information about its committee proceedings that includes links to the videos. Our new website, https://www.senatecommitteehearings.com/, is our effort to address this issue and surface video from committee proceedings.
Continue reading... December 2, 2021
The Recap: Library of Congress 2021 Virtual Public Forum
On September 2, 2021, the Library of Congress held the second of two virtual public fora on the Library’s role in providing access to legislative information directed by congressional appropriators in FY2020. (For reference, language requiring the proceedings was included in the committee report accompanying the FY2020 Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill.) We summarized the 2020 […]
Continue reading... December 1, 2021
Tweeting Out Legislative Branch Procurement
We are pleased to announce a new Twitter Bot that tweets procurement notices published by Legislative branch agencies on Sam.gov. These procurements and accompanying documentation can shed light on Legislative branch plans, operations, and priorities.
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