There is a big difference between making something available and making something useful... Our house and senate legislative record is a great example of this. There are hundreds of word documents holding the legislative record... current house records, historic house records, current & historic senate records. These documents hold quite a bit of interesting stuff but they are unindexed and a bit hard to find.
So I wrote some code that downloads all those docs, converts them to a couple different formats and indexes them for your searching pleasure. Here it is. This is something I've had on the back burner for a while and just dusted it off a little bit. I have a bunch of ideas for this app... hopefully I will soon be integrating this data with the public hearing data I mentioned in my previous post and a few other bits of public data to make a truly useful resource for activists, legislators, reporters and the public at large. If you have ideas that fit this theme (or not) feel free to leave a comment.
