Joshua Tauberer

Can you be more specific about the problem you're having? The vote-fetching code in this repo is working fine for me.

In cases like this it's helpful to take a particular example. Can you pick a bill? On September 23, 2019 7:22:10 PM EDT, Simon Sebbagh wrote: >Thanks for your answers,...

@simon555 Derek is of course right, but I just want to add, my suggestion is to pick a _particular_ bill to look at, if you want to understand better what's...

Did you try following the steps on the Bill Text page in the wiki?

Unless your hard drive is really small and this is causing you to run out of disk space, I'm not understanding the problem. Since you have downloaded the vote data...

The vote data (edit: the vote data JSON files) includes information about what the vote was about. The very end of the Votes wiki page documents the fields that indicate...

I ran that command and it started pulling data and creating files e.g. `data/107/votes/2001/h488/data.json`.

I totally forgot about this. Neat. > Should all data in the Clerk's XML feed take precedence over data in congress-legislators? Lots of middle names and such are different. Also...

@joelcollinsdc and I had a good conversation about this yesterday. I think it's worth considering, in the long run, dropping first/middle/last name fields and replacing them with e.g.: ``` full_name:...

Makes sense, I think. If we use the firstname for what the Clerk says the rep goes by, and drop their legal first name _and_ any nicknames from the data,...