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May 5, 2009 - WASHINGTON, D.C - Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), chairman of the Senate Steering Committee, thanked Senators Chuck Schumer (D-New York) and Bob Bennett (R-Utah), who lead the Senate Rules Committee, for quickly responding to a bipartisan effort to modernize the way the Senate publishes its roll call votes using the XML format. The Rules Committee has instructed the Secretary of the Senate to make this change.

“I want to thank Senators Schumer and Bennett for helping us increase Senate transparency and accountability. Last week, a group of Senators on both sides of the aisle sent them a letter asking them to publish Senate votes in the XML format so the public can use computers to search, sort, and visualize voting records in new ways. I’m pleased we were able to quickly make this change, and I look forward to working with my colleagues to make more improvements in the future,” said Senator DeMint.

“This simple but important change will help give Americans real transparency on their Senator’s voting record,” said Senator DeMint.

An XML feed of votes for the first session of the 111th Congress can be found at this feed: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/vote_menu_111_1.xml

An XML feed of individual roll call votes will also be posted, such as Vote # 177 found here: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1111/vote_111_1_00177.xml

On Friday, Senator DeMint and a group of bipartisan senators wrote to the Rules Committee and asked for Senate votes to be made available in XML format.

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