BillMap - Daniel Schuman Profile
BillMap is a platform designed to track legislative information and provide insightful analysis. With a focus on accountability and transparency, users can rely on BillMap to stay informed about various bills and their progress in the legislative process. Daniel Schuman, a notable figure involved in the project, contributes to the platform with his expertise and insights. His involvement adds value to the platform, ensuring users receive accurate and valuable information related to government legislation. Stay informed, stay engaged with BillMap.
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BillMap (https://billmap.govtrack.us/) Daniel Schuman | Daniel@DemandProgress.org 1
Problem statement How might technology assist time-constrained policy staffers by surfacing the critical information they need for legislative decision making? 2
Key Findings 1. Staff need to identify at a glance legislation that contains particular legislative ideas (or memes ) and to easily access contextual information about those ideas. 2. This information largely exists but more can be done to aggregate the information, process it, and present it in a way that supports staff work flows. 3
Bill summary Related bills from the same Congress Companion or antecedent bills over multiple Congresses Bill text 5
Committees of jurisdiction Highlighted co- sponsors w/ current cmte assignment + leadership indicator Download the data as CSV Committee leadership? 6
Tabs for related bills for the same congress, all congresses, & identifying bills with similar sections Filtered search How the bill is related: identical, related, title match, similar sections (n) Link to section- by- section comparisons between two bills Download as csv 7
This identifies related bills going back to the 111th Congress and tells you how we know they re related 8
This identifies related sections in bills going back to the 111th 9
See cosponsors over multiple Congresses (to ID old co- sponsors) Search filter Are they on a committee of jurisdiction? Cosponsors of this bill and nearly identical legislation CSV download 10
Sort by bill number by typing it into the search See sponsoring patterns 11
Range of docs: CRS Reports, SAPs, Press Statements, CBO Scores, Relevant Committee Documents Integrates siloed or outside data connected to current or antecedent legislation: CRS Reports, Statements of Administration Policy, Press Statements 12
Whats next? Finish building the website (Sept. 2021) + ensure regular data ingestion. Integrating some elements into GovTrack. Writing up what we ve learned. Share the ideas we were unable to incorporate into the website. Curious? The code is open source and online. 13
BillMap (https://billmap.govtrack.us/) Daniel Schuman | Daniel@DemandProgress.org 14
