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Bill Text API: "<title>Just a moment...</title>" instead of bill text
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Colleagues report they are running into some odd behavior from the congress.gov API when trying to access full bill text: When they try to access the xml version of the bill text, sometimes they get “Just a moment...” instead of the actual text.
Here is an example:
XML from 118 S 1779:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-US">
<head>
<title>Just a moment...</title>
Issue #207 has good details of what is happening here.