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Animats on Jan 3, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why isn't there a Google for the law?

Amendment updating is done nightly, and the results are on "congress.gov", which is the user-friendly access interface. The XML dump is the raw data, made available to the public.

The user guide for the XML data is on Github.[1]

[1] https://github.com/usgpo/bill-status/blob/master/BILLSTATUS-...

Ericson2314 on Jan 3, 2017 [–]

"ammendment updating" would be the meta-history of the bills themselves, right? I meant the applying passed and signed bills to the overall body of all. When is that done?

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