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Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Cantor on Legislative Data Release

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Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Cantor on Legislative Data Release, by John Wonderlich, Sunlight Foundation, (April 29, 2011).

Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Cantor today sent a letter to the Clerk of the House calling for better access to the House’s electronic data.

The letter asks that the House release its “legislative data” in “machine-readable formats” and establish standards for the House and its committees to include open data formats such as XML.

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