Here are articles on GovTrack in the press, mentions of GovTrack in articles about government transparency, academic articles using GovTrack data, and other reviews and related press releases.
| 2019 |
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| 10/4/2019 | Politifact: Subpoenas vs. bills: What this CNN pundit got wrong |
| 9/27/2019 | Politifact: Social media posts mislead on Democratic senators’ records |
| 9/9/2019 | New England Public Radio: For Presidential Candidates, Votes In Congress Routinely Missed |
| 8/26/2019 | The Washington Examiner: 2020 Democrats missing significantly more votes than 2008 senator-heavy White House field |
| 8/14/2019 | Bloomberg: They ‘Wrote the Damn Bill’: 2020 Hopefuls Go on Bill-Filing Spree |
| 8/11/2019 | NJ.com: Cory Booker has missed more votes than any of the Democratic presidential candidates |
| 7/5/2019 | KELO: Dusty is nearly alone in the middle in Congress |
| 6/12/2019 | RTV6: How bipartisan are the U.S. senators from Indiana? Report shows top bipartisanship list |
| 5/23/2019 | The Washington Post: As it turns out, Democrats can both investigate and legislate |
| 5/18/2019 | The New York Times: Fact-Checking Joe Biden on the Campaign Trail |
| 5/17/2019 | The Washington Post: How liberal was Joe Biden? |
| 5/14/2019 | FedScoop: A chief data officer? Congress might need one, too |
| 5/10/2019 | FCW: Transparency through technology |
| 5/6/2019 | PolitiFact: Joe Biden claims he was a staunch liberal in the Senate. He wasn’t |
| 4/29/2019 | Associated Press: Some 2020 Democrats work with GOP more than you think |
| 4/19/2019 | FactCheck.org: A Misleading Claim About Lawmakers’ Effectiveness |
| 3/4/2019 | Quartz: Charted: What the 2020 Democratic candidates did in Congress |
| 2/11/2019 | Pacific Standard: The 116th Congress Is Refocused on Gun Control in the Wake of Parkland |
| 2/1/2019 | CNN: 5 ways to understand Cory Booker's presidential chances |
| 1/3/2019 | The Washington Post: Just because government is now divided doesn’t necessarily mean Washington will get less effective |
| 2018 |
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| 12/24/2018 | Business Insider: Trump tweeted a picture of himself signing a 'bill' that appears to be a blank sheet of paper, and the internet is having a field day |
| 11/5/2018 | Politifact: Is Claire McCaskill one of America’s most independent senators? |
| 11/2/2018 | The Daily Caller/Check Your Fact: Fact Check: Has The House Passed A Thousand Bills This Session? |
| 11/2/2018 | Mother Jones: Kevin de León Makes His Closing Argument for Unseating Sen. Dianne Feinstein |
| 11/2/2018 | Texas Tribune: Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke entered Congress at the same time. Here’s what they have accomplished. |
| 10/18/2018 | Florida Politics: In latest ad, Bill Nelson says Rick Scott will put Donald Trump needs first |
| 10/18/2018 | Missourlian: Fact checking President Trump and Matt Rosendale at their rally in Missoula |
| 10/18/2018 | Politifact: Beto O'Rourke says Ted Cruz has second-worst bipartisanship record of all senators in 25 years |
| 10/17/2018 | The Washington Post: How individual House seats stack up demographically |
| 10/16/2018 | Texas Tribune: Beto O’Rourke says Ted Cruz has an attendance problem. Cruz has missed 14 percent of votes; O’Rourke has missed 3 percent |
| 10/15/2018 | Politifact: Fact-checking Donald Trump's interview on 60 Minutes |
| 10/11/2018 | WSAW-TV: 7 Investigates fact checks Rep. Kind's campaign ad, responds to opponent's claims |
| 10/10/2018 | The Atlantic: The People v. the U.S. Senate |
| 10/9/2018 | Vice: Democrats Could Seize Power, but Do They Want To? |
| 10/8/2018 | MSNBC: Will righteous anger help take back Congress? (All in With Chris Hayes), Presidents who lost popular vote picked 4 of the last 6 justices (Brian Williams) |
| 10/8/2018 | The Washington Post: Another big Democratic loss. And yet more complaints about a ‘rigged’ system |
| 10/2/2018 | CNET: 'Pulse Voter' app fights voter apathy by connecting citizens and constituents |
| 9/26/2018 | The Washington Post: Fact-checking President Trump’s speech to the U.N. General Assembly |
| 9/18/2018 | Roll Call: Public-Facing Congressional Research Reports Site Launches to Criticism |
| 9/18/2018 | Roll Call: Understanding the Constitution Is Hard, This New Website Helps Explain |
| 9/13/2018 | The Washington Post: President Trump has made more than 5,000 false or misleading claims |
| 8/19/2018 | Leader-Telegram: Analysis: Bills move faster under Republicans in Wisconsin Legislature |
| 8/3/2018 | The Washington Post: The recent loss of experience on Capitol Hill may not be as bad as it seems |
| 7/26/2018 | Politifact: Roger Williams says he's never voted "present" in U.S. House action--the 'chicken way' |
| 7/17/2018 | Roll Call: Critics Pan Plan to Publish Congressional Research |
| 7/6/2018 | Motherboard: Google AdSense Banned a Random Web Page About a 32-Year-Old Bill Because It Was About Sexual Abuse |
| 6/19/2018 | RollingStone: 5 Things You Can Do to Fight Family Separation Right Now |
| 6/14/2018 | The Cut: What You Can Do Right Now to Help Fight Trump’s Family-Separation Policy |
| 6/14/2018 | The New York Times: Seizing Children From Parents at the Border Is Immoral. Here’s What We Can Do About It |
| 6/13/2018 | Tennessean: Diane Black's missed votes mount as she campaigns for Tennessee governor |
| 6/4/2018 | NBCNews: How many bills has Trump signed into law in his first 500 days — and how does it compare to past presidents? |
| 5/30/2018 | The Incline, Pittsburgh: A look at Congressman Conor Lamb’s voting record so far |
| 5/30/2018 | Seven Days, Vermont’s Independent Voice: In a Third Term, Would Bernie Sanders Show Up to Work? |
| 5/21/2018 | The Week: This is the laziest Congress in history |
| 5/17/2018 | The New York Times: Trump Stretches Facts by Claiming Record Successes During ‘Greatest Witch Hunt’ in U.S. History |
| 5/13/2018 | Daily Caller/Check Your Fact: FACT CHECK: Has Joe Donnelly Never Had A Single Bill Passed Into Law? |
| 4/5/2018 | Associated Press: Labrador Goes on Defensive After Attack Ads Target Record |
| 3/30/2018 | El Confidencial: Este es el secreto del enorme poder del lobby de las armas en EEUU |
| 3/16/2018 | Santa Fe New Mexican: Pearce missing votes since launching campaign for governor |
| 3/13/2018 | Tennessean: Diane Black has most missed votes in 2018 among Tennessee congressional delegation |
| 3/9/2018 | Teen Vogue: How to Tell If a Bill Is Serious With 5 Tips |
| 2/28/2018 | National Catholic Reporter: No shortage of gun legislation awaits action in Congress |
| 2/22/2018 | Newsweek: Five Gun Control Bills Congress Could Pass Right Now In Wake Of Florida Shooting |
| 2/21/2018 | CNN: See what your members of Congress have done about gun control |
| 2/19/2018 | NPR: CHART: How Have Your Members Of Congress Voted On Gun Bills? |
| 2/12/2018 | Teen Vogue: Donald Trump Lies About Himself |
| 2/1/2018 | The Washington Post: Can big data predict which bills will pass Congress? |
| 1/18/2018 | BBC News: Trump tracker: The story of his first year - in seven graphics |
| 1/17/2018 | The Texas Monitor: U.S. Rep Sam Johnson, officially the 6th most absent member of the House in 2017 |
| 2017 |
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| 12/29/2017 | The New York Times: 2017: The Year in Charts (op-ed) |
| 12/29/2017 | Patch: 10 New Federal Laws Passed Under President Trump In 2017 |
| 12/29/2017 | The Hill: Politifact: Trump claim that he signed more first-year bills than any other president is 'false' |
| 12/29/2017 | Politifact: Has Donald Trump signed more bills than anyone? No. (His count ranks last) |
| 12/28/2017 | Newsday: Trump’s 2017 was no record, but it was something |
| 12/28/2017 | NowThis: [tweet] |
| 12/28/2017 | ABC News: Trump has signed fewest bills into law, despite claiming the opposite, a nonpartisan group says |
| 12/28/2017 | The Rachel Maddow Show: Trump boasts of an achievement that’s entirely made up |
| 12/28/2017 | TIME: Donald Trump Says He's Signed More Laws Than Any President Since Truman. Here's the Truth |
| 12/28/2017 | International Business Times: Trump's Claim Of Breaking Legislation Record Is Another Inaccurate One |
| 12/27-28/2017 | CNN: Fact check: Trump incorrectly claims he's 'signed more legislation than anybody; and on-air coverage by Erin Burnett Out Front, AC 360, Don Lemon |
| 12/27/2017 | Slate: Trump Boasts He’s Signed More Laws Than Any President Since Truman. He’s Actually Signed the Least. |
| 12/27/2017 | Politico: Trump falsely claims he broke a legislative record |
| 12/27/2017 | Los Angeles Times: President Trump again falsely claims he's signed more bills than any president |
| 12/27/2017 | NPR: Trump Signed 96 Laws In 2017. Here Is What They Do And How They Measure Up |
| 12/22/2017 | The Daily Caller: FACT CHECK: Has Trump Had More ‘Legislative Approvals’ Than Any Other President? |
| 12/22/2017 | AFP: Trump signs sweeping tax overhaul, sealing major victory |
| 12/21/2017 | Newsweek: Trump has signed fewest bills into law of any modern president, research shows |
| 12/21/2017 | The Washington Post: Trump has signed the fewest new laws at this point of any recent president |
| 12/1/2017 | FCW: Hill hackathon tackles transparency, efficiency |
| 12/1/2017 | FedScoop: The third Congressional Hackathon tackles openness and faith in government |
| 11/30/2017 | The New York Times: Investigating Gerrymandering and the Math Behind Partisan Maps |
| 11/30/2017 | CSPAN: Communicators at the Congressional Hackathon |
| 10/27/2017 | Carnegie Mellon University: GovTrack To Adopt Carnegie Mellon’s Citizen Input Feature |
| 10/27/2017 | The New York Times: Trump Falsely Denounces Jeff Flake by Calling Him a ... Democrat? |
| 9/11/2017 | The Washington Post: The House Republicans’ claim they have ‘passed more bills’ than recent first-year presidencies |
| 9/6/2017 | Bloomberg: This Gauge of Political Turmoil Stays Near Record High |
| 8/10/2017 | The Daily Caller: Here’s Who Could Replace McConnell As Senate Majority Leader |
| 8/8/2017 | US News and World Report: The First Democratic Candidate for President in 2020 Is Already Running |
| 8/4/2017 | BBC News: Trump tracker: How much has the president achieved so far? |
| 8/7/2017 | Business Insider: Here's how many laws Trump signed in his first 200 days compared to past presidents |
| 7/28/2017 | US News and World Report: Counting on a Maverick |
| 7/20/2017 | Politifact: Donald Trump not close in claiming he has signed more bills in first six months than any president |
| 7/18/2017 | Fox Business/Lou Dobbs:: Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell lack true leadership skills |
| 7/17/2017 | The Washington Post: No, President Trump, you haven't signed more bills than any other president |
| 7/1/2017 | StarTribune: As he runs for governor, U.S. Rep. Tim Walz aims for middle ground |
| 6/27/2017 | Politifact: Nunes gets it wrong; Trump hasn’t signed ‘more bills’ than any president at this point |
| 6/27/2017 | Business Insider: Why one of the Senate's young progressives isn't running for president in 2020 |
| 6/23/2017 | NPR: Despite Claims To Contrary, Trump Has Signed No Major Laws 5 Months In |
| 6/23/2017 | The Hill: Requiem for the budget wonk? Not if we can help it |
| 6/21/2017 | Science: Artificial intelligence can predict which congressional bills will pass |
| 6/19/2017 | The Washington Post: The president’s political case for his presidency, in three tweets |
| 6/12/2017 | The Olympian: House's COVFEFE Act has a silly name, but it would significantly impact Trump |
| 6/12/2017 | The Washington Post: Trump says he has done more by this point than anybody since FDR. Sort of. |
| 6/12/2017 | NBC News: Fact Check: Trump Says He Passed More Bills Than Most Presidents |
| 5/12/2017 | Quartz: A moderate Republican’s savaging by voters shows why Democrats think they can take back Congress |
| 5/10/2017 | The Washington Post: ‘I didn’t come here to defend the president tonight.’ Republican who rescued health-care bill faces voters. |
| 4/29/2017 | Business Insider: TRUMP'S FIRST 100 DAYS: Here's how they compare with Obama's, Bush's, and Clinton's |
| 4/27/2017 | The Washington Post: Bailouts are back — as a political insult, at least |
| 4/27/2017 | Politifact: Trump has signed more bills in 100 days than any president since Truman, Spicer says |
| 4/27/2017 | NPR: White House Touts 'Historic' 28 Laws Signed By Trump, But What Are They? |
| 4/12/2017 | Democrat and Chronicle: Gillibrand leads in “no” votes against Trump’s nominees |
| 4/3/2017 | Wired: What Does Congress Care About? Check Their Browsing Histories |
| 3/28/2017 | Quartz: How the Senate “nuked” American bipartisanship |
| 2/8/2017 | The New York Times: A Low-Tech Guide to Becoming More Politically Active |
| 1/19/2017 | Watchdog.org: Presidential candidates missed the most votes in Congress last year |
| 1/15/2017 | USAToday: Confirm Sen. Sessions: Opposing view |
| 2016 |
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| 12/7/2016 | CardRates.com: GovTrack.us Provides Fact-Based Information on the Latest Legislation That’s Free from Outside Financial Influence |
| 11/3/2016 | The Washington Post: Behold, a bipartisan congressman (endorsement of Rep. John Delaney (D-MD)) |
| 11/2/2016 | Action News JAX: Florida Rep. Ted Yoho campaign mailer gets facts wrong |
| 10/31/2016 | CIOReview: APIs: Changing the way how data gets integrated |
| 10/24/2016 | Politifact: Half True: Clinton says she sponsored 400 bills, worked with GOP |
| 10/12/2016 | NBC2: Truth Test: 'Fabulously phony failure' attack ad on Patrick Murphy |
| 9/11/2016 | Daily Herald: 3 lawmakers want to kill the interview question we all hate: salary history |
| 9/11/2016 | Salon: Not all of 2016’s political surprises are bad: A bipartisan campaign finance reform bill shows promise |
| 9/9/2016 | PolitiFact Florida: Ad attacking Patrick Murphy as among 'least effective' in Congress misses the mark |
| 9/2/2016 | PolitiFact Florida: Mostly True: Marco Rubio has worst voting record of any Florida senator in nearly 50 years |
| 8/17/2016 | TechCrunch: Why tech companies are making Election Day a holiday |
| 8/16/2016 | San Francisco Chronicle: Sanchez ranks at top for missed votes, flails in Senate race |
| 8/15/2016 | The Washington Times: Vice presidential candidates rank as polar opposites on conservative scale |
| 7/20/2016 | ZDNet: Congress' website was down for three days |
| 6/28/2016 | The Washington Post (The Fix): Harlem is about to elect its third congressman since the Roosevelt administration |
| 6/16/2016 | The Washington Post: Do your Congress members support stricter gun control? |
| 5/31/2016 | RT: Slush funds, secrets and splurges: How Pentagon budgets keep getting bigger |
| 4/28/2016 | Chicago magazine: Should Chicagoans Have Known Rahm Emanuel Wouldn’t Be a Progressive Mayor? |
| 4/6/2016 | Technical.ly DC: OpenGov Foundation to recognize members of Congress working to keep government open |
| 4/3/2016 | Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Congressional Fundraising |
| 3/24/2016 | Politifact: Bernie Sanders was the roll call amendment king from 1995 to 2007 |
| 3/16/2016 | The New York Times: The Candidates and the Constitution |
| 3/8/2016 | Politifact: Right to Rise correct on comparison between 'worst attendance records' of Marco Rubio, Barack Obama |
| 3/8/2016 | AP: Donald Trump Overstates Rubio's Absenteeism in Senate |
| 3/4/2016 | CNN: CNN's Reality Check Team inspects the claims at Republican debate |
| 3/3/2016 | Politifact: Donald Trump is right: Marco Rubio has worst Senate voting record |
| 2/29/2016 | FedScoop: GPO, Library of Congress releases bill statuses in XML format |
| 2/3/2016 | FactCheck.org: Clinton’s Bipartisan Bluster |
| 1/3/2016 | Glen Falls Post-Star: EDITORIAL: Defining Elise Stefanik |
| 2015 |
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| 12/15/2015 | Public Administration Times: Outsourcing Oversight through Open Government Data |
| 11/1/2015 | Politifact: PunditFact: Fact-checking the Nov. 1 news shows |
| 10/29/2015 | CNN: Marco Rubio: I hate idea of Clinton White House more than missing votes |
| 10/12/2015 | The New Yorker: The Populist Prophet: Bernie Sanders has spent decades attacking inequality. Now the country is listening. |
| 9/30/2015 | Vocativ: Marco Rubio's Voting Record Is Getting Even Worse |
| 9/29/2015 | Forbes: John Boehner And The Future Of The Republican Party |
| 8/30/2015 | Digital Journal: Interview: How civic hackers find creative solutions to problems |
| 8/23/2015 | Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: LGBT Discrimination |
| 8/9/2015 | The Washington Post (The Fix): Which 2016 candidate was the most effective legislator? |
| 8/6/2015 | Kickstarter: Projects We Love |
| 8/1/2015 | Techdirt: Awesome Stuff: Making GovTrack Even More Awesome |
| 7/16/2015 | McClatchy DC: Moderate Marco? Not quite, but Rubio has history of bipartisanship |
| 7/14/2015 | Politifact Florida: Alan Grayson says he passed more bills and amendments than any other current member |
| 7/10/2015 | VTDigge: Bernie Sanders: Slightly less present than the average senator |
| 6/17/2015 | WFTV 9: 9 Investigates: Rubio's presidential campaign keeps him from key votes |
| 5/1/2015 | Nextgov: Senators beg techies to bring Congress into 21st Century |
| 4/24/2015 | CBS News: Are GOP senators running for president shirking their day jobs? |
| 4/12/2015 | The Hill: '16 hopefuls rack up Senate absences |
| 3/2/2015 | The Washington Post (The Fix): America’s longest-serving female member of Congress is retiring. She may not hold that record for long. |
| 2/28/2015 | The Chicago Tribune: Rep. Aaron Schock's wide travels raise questions |
| 2/25/2015 | The Washington Post (The Fix): Ted Strickland plans a bid to be the 11th oldest new senator ever |
| 2/23/2015 | The Washington Post (The Fix): The last time Chuck Grassley missed a vote in the Senate, Bill Clinton had been president for six months |
| 2/23/2015 | FiveThirtyEight: Comparing Obama’s Veto Rate To Other Recent Presidents’ |
| 2/22/2015 | Cleveland.com: Rob Portman's record in the Senate: breaking it down |
| 2/17/2015 | Vocativ: Who’s The Biggest No-Show In Congress? (picked up in Politico, The Washington Post, and Miami Herland) |
| 2/11/2015 | Vocativ: Which Senator Votes No More Than Anyone Else On The Floor? |
| 2/8/2015 | Globe Gazette: Bills piling up: Tracking Iowa’s federal legislators |
| 2014 |
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| 12/23/2014 | National Journal: No, the 113th Congress Wasn't the Least Productive Ever, by Daniel Newhaser. |
| 12/19/2014 | The Washington Post (Blogs): The did-something Congress: A flurry of bills passed in the final days. Here are the highlights, by Ed O'Keefe. |
| 12/17/2014 | The Washington Post: Was the lame duck session reason for hope or preview of horrors to come?, by Paul Kane. |
| 12/15/2014 | The Washington Post (Blogs): The 113th Congress reaches new lows. In everything., by Philip Bump. |
| 12/15/2014 | USA Today OnPolitics: Gallup: Job approval for Congress near bottom for 2014, by Catalina Camia. |
| 12/11/2014 | The Washington Post (Blogs): John Dingell has served with one-quarter of all members of the House in history, by Philip Bump. |
| 12/10/2014 | The Washington Post (Blogs): No year saw more people leave Congress for good than 1933, by Philip Bump. |
| 11/20/2014 | The Washington Post (Blogs): Jim Webb’s potential 2016 candidacy won’t keep Hillary up at night, by Philip Bump. |
| 11/7/2014 | FactCheck.org: Boehner’s ‘Bipartisan’ Bunk, by Eugene Kiely. |
| 11/7/2014 | The Washington Post (Blogs): Are 300 House bills really bottled up in the Senate?, by Glenn Kessler. |
| 11/4/2014 | The Washington Post (Blogs): When each generation arrived on Capitol Hill, by Philip Bump. |
| 10/12/2014 | New York Daily News: Rep. Carolyn Maloney sponsors the most bills, by Dan Friedman. |
| 10/7/2014 | The Washington Post (Blogs): Why losing the Senate could help make President Obama’s last two years more productive, by Philip Bump |
| 8/21/2014 | Alaska Dispatch News: Claim Check: Americans for Prosperity accuses Begich of missing votes, by Nathaniel Herz |
| 8/14/2014 | Fox Business: How About Pay…for NO Performance?, by Neil Cavuto |
| 8/13/2014 | The Washington Post (Blogs): No Congress in four decades has been paid more to do less than this one, by Philip Bump |
| 8/12/2014 | Springfield News-Leader: Billy Long's bill a symptom, symbol of gridlock, by Deirdre Shesgreen |
| 8/8/2014 | The Washington Post (Blogs): Yes, the Senate is ignoring hundreds of bills passed by the GOP House. But it’s always that way. by Philip Bump. |
| 8/1/2014 | The Hill: Congress jets to five-week recess, by Peter Sullivan. |
| 7/31/2014 | The Washington Post (Blogs): The lobbying industry is back! But don’t expect more action on Capitol Hill., by Philip Bump |
| 7/9/2014 | The Washington Post (Blogs): The 113th Congress is historically good at not passing bills, by Philip Bump. |
| 5/31/2014 | Chicago Tribune/Blue Sky: Data opening the door to innovation, by Rich Cooper. |
| 5/17/2014 | The Washington Post (Blogs): Here’s yet another way of looking at how unproductive Congress is, by Philip Bump. |
| 5/13/2014 | The Baltimore Sun: Trying (and failing) to grind out sympathy for Cardin's issues, by Dan Rodricks. |
| 5/10/2014 | Florida Today: Rubio’s attendance record among the lowest, by Ledyard King. |
| 5/7/2014 | National Journal: The Best and Worst Attendance Records in the Senate, by Emma Roller and Stephanie Stamm. |
| 5/5/2014 | National Journal: So You Want to Be a Senator, Huh?, by Michael Catalini. |
| 5/5/2014 | FiveThirtyEight: The Age of Tea Party Members in Congress, by Dhrumil Mehta. |
| 4/28/2014 | FiveThirtyEight: Both Republicans And Democrats Have an Age Problem, by Nate Silver and Dhrumil Mehta. |
| 4/26/2014 | The Washington Post: House Republicans more active on Twitter than Democrats, by Christopher Ingraham. |
| 4/1/2014 | The Washington Post: Interactive map: the oldest and youngest Congressional delegations,by Christopher Ingraham. |
| 2/4/2014 | The Washington Post: Andrews proposed 646 bills, passed 0: Worst record of past 20 years, by David Fahrenthold. |
| 1/20/2014 | Wyoming Public Media: Congressional report card shows Wyo's lawmakers most conservative, by Melodie Edwards. |
| 1/9/2014 | Politico: Report: David Vitter, Alan Grayson introduce most bills, by Tal Kopan. |
| 1/5/2014 | The Washington Post: In Congress, 2014 begins with shrunken ambitions, by Paul Kane. |
| 2013 |
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| 12/26/2013 | The Week: Confirmed: This is the worst Congress ever, by Jon Terbush. |
| 12/19/2013 | Bloomberg Businessweek: 113th Congress: Many Bills, Few Laws, by Dorothy Gambrell. |
| 12/18/2013 | AlJazeera America: Congress passes budget deal, but cuts will sting for some, by Naureen Khan. |
| 12/7/2013 | The Economist: United States of Amoeba [video]. |
| 11/17/2013 | Forbes: U.S. Senate More Divided Than Ever Data Shows, by Erica Swallow. |
| 11/14/2013 | PolicyMic: What's Wrong With the Senate, in One Simple GIF , by Sean Becker. |
| 11/13/2013 | HuffPost Politics: Here's A Dramatic Reminder Of Just How Partisan The Senate Has Become, by Ethan Klapper. |
| 11/13/2013 | Yahoo! News: The splitting of the Senate (now in convenient GIF form), by Mike Krumboltz |
| 10/30/2013 | Reuters: US House votes to tweak Dodd-Frank in bank victory, by Douwe Miedema and Emily Stephenson |
| 10/16/2013 | The Washington Post: Votes to end the government shutdown |
| 9/5/2013 | The Rachel Maddow Show: September 5, 2013 episode. (At 9:00). |
| 8/27/2013 | The Pennsylvania Gazette: Civic Hacker: Josh Tauberer, by Alyson Krueger. |
| 8/2/2013 | The McLaughlin Group: Aug 2, 2013 episode. (At 22:20.) |
| 7/30/2013 | techPresident: House Publishes U.S. Code in XML, by Miranda Neubauer. |
| 7/25/2013 | Patch.com/Columbia Patch: Congress On Pace to Enact Fewest Bills Ever -- How Do SC Pols Rate?, by Shawn Drury. |
| 7/18/2013 | The New Republic: Pelosi's Secret Women's Issue: Minimum Wage, by Nora Caplan-Bricker. |
| 7/10/2013 | The Atlantic Wire: You Only Have Yourself to Blame for Congress' Ineptitude, by Philip Bump. |
| 7/8/2013 | Huffington Post: 113th Congress On Pace To Be Least Productive In Modern History, by Amanda Terkel |
| 6/13/2013 | AARP Blog: What’s Congress Up To? How You Can Find Out, by Tamara Lytle |
| 6/7/2013 | IVN: Top 5 National Groups Advancing Transparency on Twitter, by Jane Susskind |
| 5/27/2013 | OECD Working Papers on Public Governance: Open Government Data: Towards Empirical Analysis of Open Government Data Initiatives, by Barbara Ubaldi |
| 5/17/2013 | US News and World Report: GOP Lawmakers Raked in Donations for the Obamacare Repeal Vote, by Elizabeth Flock |
| 4/24/2013 | US News and World Report: Four-Term Congressman Introduces Constitutional Amendment for Term Limits, by Elizabeth Flock. |
| 4/8/2013 | The Atlantic Wire: Who Will Win on Senate Background Checks: The NRA or the Middle?, by Philip Bump. |
| 3/30/2013 | The Times of Israel: For GOP rising star, Israel and US are ‘in it together’, by Haviv Rettig Gur. |
| 3/22/2013 | The Washington Post’s The Fix: The Senate as Facebook, by Chris Cillizza. |
| 3/18/2013 | Yahoo! News: What does the Senate have in common with single-celled organisms? This diagram., by Chris Wilson. |
| 3/7/2013 | The Atlantic: How Groups Like the NRA Captured Congress—and How to Take It Back, by Lorelei Kelly. |
| 2/27/2013 | Forbes: House Republicans Take First Stab At Killing Off The Tax Code, by Tony Nitti. |
| 1/10/2013 | O’Reilly Radar Tumblr: Open data of U.S. House legislation now available in bulk format, by Alex Howard. |
| 1/10/2013 | techPresident: House Republicans Release More Data Catnip for Developers, by Nick Judd. |
| 2012 |
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| 12/6/2012 | O’Reilly Radar: The United States (Code) is on Github, by Alex Howard. |
| 10/23/2012 | Daily Tekk: Vote Smarter: 28 Resources for Election 2012. |
| 10/8/2012 | Forbes: Tech To Keep You Up On Politics, by Samantha Smith. |
| 9/19/2012 | techPresident: What Congress.gov Means for a Congressional API, by Nick Judd and Miranda Neubauer. |
| 9/5/2012 | Watchdog.org: OR: Congressional delegates show strong voting records despite distance, by Shelby Sebens. |
| 8/29/2012 | InfoCommerce Group: Models Of Excellence: Innovation Around Content and Data. |
| 8/29/2012 | JewishJournal: Berman versus Sherman, by the numbers, by Bill Boyarsky. |
| 8/23/2012 | MissouriWatchdog.org: MO: Akin missed 85 percent of House votes this quarter, by Johnny Kampis. |
| 8/23/2012 | Bloomberg: Ryan’s Bipartisanship Record Shows More Civility Than Compromise, by Elizabeth Dwoskin. |
| 8/21/2012 | The Washington Post: Dennis Cardoza leaves Calif. constituents in the lurch, by WaPo Editorial Board. |
| 8/19/2012 | Powell, Eleanor Neff. 2012. Dollars to Votes: The Infuence of Fundraising in Congress. |
| 8/13/2012 | The Washington Post: Paul Ryan, Republican vice presidential candidate, has a complicated record with little compromise, by David A. Fahrenthold. |
| 7/30/2012 | PolitiFact Florida: Connie Mack says Bill Nelson missed 56 percent of his votes -- in 1990. |
| 7/13/2012 | techPresident: The Case for Political Software as a Commodity, Not a Weapon, by Sarah Lai Stirland. |
| 7/6/2012 | The Washington Examiner: Examiner publishes complete list of tariff break requests, by Jennifer Peebles. |
| 6/24/2012 | The Washington Post: Lawmakers trade in stocks they can impact. |
| 6/12/2012 | Government Technology: Low-Tech Phone Service Connects Citizens to Congressional Info, by Sarah Rich.
(Call on Congress and Scout both use GovTrack’s database of federal legislation.) |
| 6/8/2012 | The Washington Post: Congressional data may soon be easier to use online, by David A. Fahrenthold. |
| 6/1/2012 | techPresident: For Transparency Advocates, the Honeymoon with House Republicans May Be Over, by Nick Judd. |
| June 2012 | Communications of the ACM: Data Mining Meets City Hall, by Leah Hoffmann. |
| 5/30/2012 | techPresident: Transparency Advocates Frustrated With House Appropriators' Plan To Make A Plan , by Sarah Lai Stirland. |
| 4/10/2012 | Federal Computer Week: Transparency groups say THOMAS legislative website is outdated, by Alice Lipowicz. |
| 3/29/2012 | KSFX/KOLR News (Springfield, MO): (Local News Broadcast) |
| 3/22/2012 | WYFF4 News (Greenville, SC): Are Politicians Really Trying To Create Jobs? |
| 3/15/2012 | The Atlantic: An Election 2012 Surprise: California May Matter Most, by Conor Friedersdorf. |
| 2/29/2012 | Fort Wayne Journal Gazette: Lugar, Donnelly similar in voting, by Brian Francisco. |
| 1/17/2012 | Chicago Tribune: Rush, Gutierrez rank high in missed votes, by Katherine Skiba. |
| 2011 |
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| 6/2011 | Gerrish and Blei. 2011. Predicting Legislative Roll Calls from Text. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Machine Learning, Bellevue, WA, USA, 2011. |
| 6/13/2011 | NewsMax: Weinergate Distracts Media From Real Issues, by Judith Miller. |
| 2010 |
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| 12/27/2010 | ReadWriteWeb: Data Hacker Pageranks Members of the US Congress, by Marshall Kirkpatrick. |
| 5/23/2010 | Open Society Institute: Open Data Study. |
| 2009 |
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| 12/2/2009 | The American: Opening a Can of Worms: Government and Climate Change Data, by James V. Delong. (It refers to my monograph Open Data Is Civic Capital.) |
| 10/19/2009 | Columbia Journalism Review: The Reconstruction of American Journalism (CJR), by Leonard Downie, Jr., The Washington Post and Arizona State University, and Michael Schudson, Columbia University. |
| 9/28/2009 | LA Times: These crusaders bring transparency to government, by Michael Hiltzik |
| 9/9/2009 | Orlando Sentinel: Alan Grayson: Is he one of Congress' top "leaders"?. Debate on the leader-follower score. |
| 8/26/2009 | Government Computer News: Apps for America 2 finalists announced, by Joab Jackson. |
| 6/1/2009 | Government Computer News: Ready for reuse? by Joab Jackson. |
| 5/11/2009 | Columbia Journalism Review: Senate goes XML, by Clint Hendler |
| 5/6/2009 | Politico: Senate picks up the slack on data, by Victoria McGrane. (Again, no mention of GovTrack, but I count this as a bit of a personal victory.) |
| 5/4/2009 | O'Reilly Broadcast: Visualizing the U.S. Senate Social Graph, 1991 - 2009 [Part 1], by Andrew Odewahn. |
| 5/1/2009 | Politico: Group wants Senate to get 'techy', by Victoria McGrane. (It doesn't mention GovTrack, but I was involved behind the scenes.) |
| 5/9/2009 | Examiner.com: Online democracy, by Alexandra de Scheel |
| 4/30/2009 | Government Computer News: Remixing government data by Joab Jackson. |
| 4/27/2009 | Politico: Online voting records user unfriendly, by Victoria McGrane |
| 3/5/2009 | Mother Jones: Congressional Data Mining: Coming Soon?, by Jonathan Stein |
| 3/3/2009 | TechNewsWorld: How to Use the Web to Track Government Goings-On, by Erika Morphy. |
| 2/28/2009 | Newsweek: The People's Data: Government should make data openly available and then let outside talent reimagine how it can be used online, by Christopher Werth. |
| 1/10/2009 | Miller-McCune: Deep Throat Meets Data Mining: In the nick of time, the digital revolution comes to democracy's rescue. And, perhaps, journalism's, by John Mecklin. |
| 1/2009 | The Atlantic: iGov: How geeks are opening up government on the Web, by Douglas McGray. |
| 2009 | Kinnaird, Rouzati, and Sun. Connect 2 congress. In IEEE Information Visualization Poster Extended Abstracts, Atlantic City, 2009. |
| 2008 |
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| 7/24/2008 | linux.com: GovTrack opens up information on US legislature, by Tina Gasperson. |
| 7/21/2008 | IT Conversations: Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators
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| 7/16/2008 | Princeton Alumni Weekly: Data Crusader: Josh Tauberer '04 is someone a policy wonk could love, by Brett Tomlinson. |
| 7/3/2008 | SemanticWeb.com: The Semantic Web and The Democratic Tradition, by Jennifer Zaino |
| 7/3/2008 | ZDNet: Seven Tech ways to make America better this July 4, by Mitch Ratcliffe |
| 6/30/2008 | TIME: The Citizen Watchdogs of Web 2.0, by Jeremy Caplan |
| 6/3/2008 | Ars Technica: Study: .gov web sites should focus on RSS, XML—not redesigns, by Timothy B. Lee |
| 6/2008 | Robinson, David, Yu, Harlan, Zeller, William P and Felten, Edward W, "Government Data and the Invisible Hand" (2008). Yale Journal of Law & Technology, Vol. 11, 2008 |
| 1/23/2008 | National Journal/GovExec: Lawmakers favor outside access to legislative data, by Aliya Sternstein. |
| 2007 |
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| 8/9/2007 | Sunlight Foundation: Insanely Useful Websites (by John Wonderlich and Paul Blumenthal, with an audio-intro by GovTrack's Josh Tauberer) |
| 5/8/2007 | CSPAN: Transparency of the House of Representatives |
| 3/2007 | Searcher: Mashups, Blogs, Wikis Go Federal (subscribers only), by Laura Gordon-Murnane. |
| 2/13/2007 | The American (online): Legislators Should Live in a Glass House (by GovTrack's creator Josh Tauberer) |
| 2/9/2007 | Sunlight Foundation Announces Open House Project
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| 2006 |
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| 7/2006 | Thomas, Pang, and Lee. 2006. Get out the vote: determining support or opposition from congressional floor-debate transcripts. Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. |
| 5/9/2006 | Webby Award 2006 Nominee - Politics
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| 5/6/2006 | Voice of America: Our World: Web Site of the Week
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| 4/3/2006 | The Daily Pennsylvanian: Grad student's site helps track new laws, by Katie Vasserman. |
| 3/1/2006 | The Washington Post: Think Your Lawmakers Don't Read Bills? Do It Yourself, by Zachary A. Goldfarb. |
| 2005 |
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| 2/21/2005 | Accounting Today: "Government Resources" |
| 3/3/2005 | The Daily Princetonian: Tauberer '04 takes Govtrack to Capitol Hill, by Kavita Saini. |
| 2/8/2005 | BusinessWeek Online: All Your Info in One Place, by Olga Kharif. |
| 1/27/2005 | The New York Times: How Did They Vote? Updates by E-Mail of Congressional Ayes and Nays, by Daniel Terdiman. |
| 1/13/2005 | The Guardian (London): "Life: online: Blog Watch: Bill of progress" |
