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Visualizing
Government Data
Flows
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Data Flows
“Soup to Nuts”
- American English idiom conveying the meaning of “from beginning to end”- Derived from the description of a full course dinner, in which courses progress from soup to a dessert of nuts
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Data Flows
“Deepbills” Project
CatoXML
http://www.cato.org/resources/data
@Deepbills
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Data Flows
House and Senate Membership
Bioguide
House.gov Clerk.house.gov
Senate.gov
History.house.gov
And more!
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Data Flows
House and Senate Membership
clerk.house.gov
Senate.gov
Congressional Record
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Data Flows
Meetings of House, Senate, Committees
docs.house.gov
Senate.gov
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Data Flows
Meeting Records
Congress.gov(Congressional Record)
Houselive.gov
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Data Flows
Committee Reports
PDF HTML
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Data Flows
Bills and Amendments
FDSys THOMAS Statutes at Large
LOC American Memory Century of Lawmaking
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Data Flows
Votes
clerk.house.gov
senate.gov
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Data Flows
Motions
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Data Flows
Inter- and Intra-Branch Communications
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Data Flows
Agencies
Federal Register API
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Data Flows
Bureaus
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Data Flows
Programs
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance CSV files
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Data Flows
Projects
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Data Flows
Budget Documents
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Data Flows
Budget Authorities
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Data Flows
Warrants, Apportionments, and Allocations
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Data Flows
Obligations
USASpending.gov
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Data Flows
Parties
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Data Flows
Outlays
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Data Flows
- House and Senate Membership
- Committees and Subcommittees
- Meetings of House, Senate, and Committees
- Meeting Records- Committee Reports- Budget Documents- Bills- Amendments- Motions- Decisions and Votes- Communications (Inter-and
Intra-Branch
- Agencies- Bureaus- Programs- Projects- Budget Documents- Budget Authorities- Warrants, Allocations, and
Apportionments- Obligations- Parties- Outlays
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Data Flows
“Deepbills” Project
CatoXML
http://www.cato.org/resources/data
@Deepbills