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This is a community-run project to develop Python tools to collect data about the bills, amendments, roll call votes, and other core data about the U.S. Congress into simple-to-use structured data files.
Downloading the official bulk bill status data from Congress, the official source of information on the life and times of legislation, and converting the data to an easier-to-use format.
A document fetcher for GovInfo.gov, which holds bill text, bill status, and other official documents, and which downloads only newly updated files.
This repository was originally developed by GovTrack.us and the Sunlight Foundation in 2013 (see Eric's blog post) and is currently maintained by GovTrack.us and other contributors. For more information about data in Congress, see the Congressional Data Coalition.
Finally, with your virtual environment activated, install the package, which will automatically pull in the Python dependencies:
