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LegiStorm now features easily identified trip amendments

Posted by LegiStorm on March 5, 2009

LegiStorm has added a simple change to the way we display congressional trip reports. For all trips after November of 2008, if an amendment to the original trip form was filed we now identify the amendment and separately link to both the original form and the amended form. You can see an example here.

LegiStorm has always collected trip amendments as part of our data-gathering process and changed the trip records accordingly, but if an amendment was filed to an older trip we lumped both the original and the amendment into one PDF. Providing both PDFs now makes it easier to see if a traveler filed an amendment, compare the amendment side-by-side to the original and view the changes made to the filing.

We will identify amendments on all trips going forward and we will also note amendments to historical trips as we find them. We hope this small feature makes our trip database even more convenient for our users.

If you have any other ideas for features or changes you'd like to see on our site, leave a comment below or contact us.