...Huh. When Congress (or any other government body, for that matter) passes a law, do they save any of the discussion that went in to it, or any kind of designers notes, or documentation, or any of that? :/
@Angle Congressional Record. In the UK and other countries we have Hansard, which is the equivalent - a record of what was said.
@rosjackson @Angle and in #Canada a group reformatted it for easy reading online - https://openparliament.ca
@Angle document your code, for goodness' sake
@Angle @noelle There is a Congressional record that includes things like reports from committees—which isn't comprehensive, but at least constitutes some data). State legislatures do varying degrees of this. The Minnesota Legislature's house and Senate journals mostly just record bills and votes, but they do have (mostly unindexed and inconvenient) audio recordings.
@mark Oh damn! I'm definitely gonna have to go through that later. XD
@Angle Yes, though access to it can be spotty. Nonetheless, legislative history is kept and can be pretty useful in legal cases.
@Angle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansard is what we use to keep the minutes.
@Angle I think the Congressional Record is intended to capture that information