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hirako2000today at 1:06 PM1 replyview on HN

That could actually be a git commit log with date, votes and other metadata.

But getting the entire country's law into git is already an impressive feat.


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3eb7988a1663today at 4:11 PM

If we are spitballing, I think there should be an actual file associated with the text so you can see the vote. A file makes it trivial to grep for "Senator X".

Not git, but Congress actually does have quite a bit of data digitized. A random example[0] -they even provide XML. The Congress data is going to give you all bills - many of which do not pass, so a different mission than this project.

[0] https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4818