Joshua Tauberer

Hi there. Thanks for your interest in improving this repository! There's a lot of information in this pull request so there's a lot to comment on. * It might be...

It would be a lot clearer from a user's point of view to do it by Congress and then by chamber within each Congress, but it's not hugely important.

Hey, I'm sorry I dropped off, I just don't have the time right now to help on this. :(

What command did you use to start the container?

Well. It probably won't work that way. You have to follow the instructions at the top of https://github.com/unitedstates/congress/blob/master/Dockerfile.

Some of the party info probably came from the bioguide search listing pages: e.g. http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch1.asp I may have filled it in with other sources. We should correct executive.yaml's parties for...

Sorry, for the bioguide link, start at the home page http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp and just choose a state. That's what I meant.

@GPHemsley It's actually even more complex than that. The party that members run under during the election may have no connection to whether they caucus with the Republicans or with...

I'm running scrapelib version 0.10.0. It's possible version 0.10.1 isn't backwards compatible and that we need to upgrade our scripts (in fact, we should go to the 1.x releases.)

I've also just been thinking about this. :) The last couple of weeks I've been writing a grammar to do a deep parse of bioguide entries. I should have something...