Senate Votes and UserJS

Well, I've accomplished a dubious achievement, melding the areas of politics and programming.

I've just finished a UserJS script—a type of Javascript module which several popular browsers support—that will automatically calculate a 3x3 table when you visit a senate roll call vote page, showing how groups voted.

Of course, I don't really want to visit each and every one of the 478 cloture votes since 1989 personally, but it does get me a step closer to automatically scraping that data.

And yes, I first tried Python and XML libraries, but unfortunately the Senate webmaster doesn't seem to think that XHTML is important.

I'll be posting the script up on UserJS.org when I get a chance.