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Both sides could sorely use an index that lists all votes ... along with an indication of the last time the vote was modified
(i.e., if corrections to the original data have been posted).
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... happily, vote information is in pretty good shape. Each chamber publishes data about votes, meaning authority is well
handled. Vote data are available and timely. ... both the House and Senate produce vote information in XML, which is useful
for computers and the Internet. Both houses also use unique identifiers for their members, though they're not so good at indicating
who those unique IDs refer to. (The House does not have a list-of-people
database, and the Senate uses lis_member_ids rather than Bioguide IDs.) Overall, though, voting data are pretty well
handled.
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