So frustrating that there is no easy way to apply the bill ‘diff’ to the underlying statute and then read the result.
Legislative workflow is in serious need of some better tooling.
Legislative workflow is in serious need of some better tooling.
* last year: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr387/text#compar...
* year prior: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr387/text/ih#com...
First the entire US code would have to be on a git repo. And all the approved pull requests would also be there and you could roll it back to the very beginning.
All the contributors would be the politicians. And all proposed bills would show what they modified. And the branch they came from would have all the other things.
I like it because it would also be open to discussion and scrutiny. But transparency means a different thing to those people.
There probably is something like this for the EU Parliament but buried somewhere that nobody can find
Granted, it's not as easy to go back and see all the changes to a certain law, but the data is there.
Should also be standard affair for state and municipal governments and all regulators.
This uses open data published by the governments at https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/
[0]: http://www.lafabriquedelaloi.fr/articles.html?loi=pjl12-689
The CT legislature already has diffs on all of their legislation. So the tooling exists, congress.gov just hasn't implemented it.