formerly the Sunlight Foundation Congress API and traces its history to legislative data offerings in 2010. Prognosis scores (predictions of enactment) are from Skopos Labs. Bill Summaries GovTrack's display several types of bill summaries. Other summaries are from the Library of Congress's Congressional Research Service (the same summaries on Congress.gov) and the House Republican Conference. Votes Roll call votes are retrieved from the Senate and House websites in XML format. The site updates its vote data roughly hourly. It uses the open-source Congress project to automate and simplify retrieving the data. Missed and mistaken vote explanations are from ProPublica. Bill Text The text of the legislation is retrieved from GPO.gov/FDSys in PDF, XML, and plain text formats. GovTrack uses the open-source Congress project to automate and simplify retrieving the data, congressxml to render the XML as HTML, and linkify-citations to hyperlink legal citations in bill text. Feedback GovTrack was cited by Clyde Haberman in The New York Times, and was mentioned as striving to help educate voters about legislation by The San Francisco Chronicle. The student wire service University Wire said the site was making it easy for people to learn about the government. A survey conducted showed that GovTrack helped raise awareness among common citizens through their report card for each legislative year since 2013. Tauberer won a contest from Technorati for using the site to link bills to the blog posts discussing them. References External links GovTrack homepage American political websites