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Govtrack’s new crystall ball … er … Docket page

Our pal Josh Tauberer at Govtrack.us wrote recently that he’s started a new Docket page on which readers can now know up to a week ahead when a bill is scheduled to come to the floor of the House or Senate. He was able to cobble together the data needed to do this because of the freely available — and new — House website called docs.house.gov and Senate.gov where the Senate’s floor for the next day is published. And don’t forget to follow govtrack for tweets on the upcoming bills. Way to use structured, open government data, Josh!!

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