U.S. House legislative bill summaries available in bulk XML

Summaries of legislative bills introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives are now available in bulk XML from the U.S. Government Printing Office in cooperation with the Library of Congress.

Click here for the User Guide.

Preservation via LOCKSS is enabled.

Click here for the announcement from GPO.

Here are excerpts from the announcement:

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has partnered with the Library of Congress (LOC) to make House of Representatives bill summaries available in XML format for bulk data download from GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys). Bill summaries are prepared by the LOC’s Congressional Research Service and describe the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation. They also detail the effects the legislative text may have on current law and Federal programs. The bill summaries are part of FDsys’ Bulk Data repository starting with the 113th Congress. Making House bill summaries available in XML permits data to be reused and repurposed for mobile web applications, data mashups, and other analytical tools by third party providers, which contributes to openness and transparency in Government. This project commenced at the direction of the House Appropriations Committee, and is in support of the task force on bulk data established by the House. [...]

GPO already makes House bills as well as the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, and other documents from the executive branch available in XML format for bulk data download.

Link to House bill summaries on FDsys: http://ift.tt/1ijgUBE [...]

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