I have to say, this is cool and surreal in some way.

It's just surreal to think of international treaties as being objects with a "last updated time."

Given the massive human apparatus constantly parsing this information from Capitol Hill, I'm not sure what the use-case is for an app, but nonetheless, it's cool.

Now... if we could get this for every state and county legislature, that would enable some interesting use cases to track parallel legislative initiatives (usually advocated by corporations / non-profits).

seaourfreed

GREAT, BUT! We need an API on who wrote which parts of the bill. Find lobbyists who wrote parts. Find when there is an evil part (where lobbyists get congress to sell out), and we need to find out WHICH congress person put it in there.

We need to track the evil parts of bills to the congress person who is the sell out for lobbyists (and the corporations beind them)

indigochill

I've thought about this (as an outsider who doesn't know anything) and wondered if plain old git would do the job. I've heard Germany already does this, but when I looked at https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze it didn't look like this was representative of what I would assume to be the full extent of German legislation.

In theory, you probably wouldn't find lobbyists contributing directly, but you could find representatives and then link them to lobbyists they've associated with.