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> Today we’re the leading non-governmental source of legislative information and statistics.

If they screwed up and left me in charge, Congress itself would live in a public git repo.

All non-classified content.

Let the data science folks see if any sense can be made of it.

If someone put you in charge, you probably would not know how to do the thing you're imagining. (For example, "classified" doesn't really apply to Congress. That's an executive branch thing. So you're already on the wrong track.) Don't fool yourself that it's just a matter of having a bright idea that's the difference between the world as it is and the world as you want it.

I can't refute "you" in the singular.

Nor should a solo ninja effort be acceptable.

The post was operating at the "decree", no implementation level.

They are just a wrapper over congress.gov apis

https://www.congress.gov/help/using-data-offsite

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