Press Clippings
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.
| 2013 | |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 8/9/2007 | Sunlight Foundation: Insanely Useful Websites (by John Wonderlich and Paul Blumenthal, with an audio-intro by GovTrack's Josh Tauberer) |
| 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 |
| 2006 | |
| 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 |
| 5/6/2006 | Voice of America: Our World: Web Site of the Week |
| 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 | |
| 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" |