Joshua Tauberer

Sure. On March 18, 2017 7:55:50 PM EDT, Eric Mill wrote: >OK, not my intent to interfere in a working pipeline, though it's a >pretty reasonable thing to point out...

We update current committee assignments using the committee_membership.py script. I've just run it, see f15f12d.

Have to be a little careful with that data. Some is listed as for academic use only.

The Congressional Directory was mentioned earlier, but I was looking it over so I thought I'd post more information: * There is plain-text from GPO going back to 1997: https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/cdir...

If it got that far it worked OK. Maybe I can just disable that part for SQLite. It's checking if any bills in the database don't correspond to files on...

There's a case where transforming 3/5 to a % is actually very difficult or impossible. Search for "duly chosen and sworn" in this PDF: http://www.senate.gov/CRSReports/crs-publish.cfm?pid='0E%2C*PLW%3D%22P%20%20%0A

The difficulty is determining which rule applies to the vote: 60% of senators present and voting, or 60% duly sworn.

I can tell from the server logs as a fallback, but yeah this would be nice. Since it's an iframe, you can copy/paste the google analytics code in the main...

Committee vote info isn't usefully available. There may be improvements later this year. I like the stats ideas a lot.

I revised the prognosis to add committee assignments as factors: http://www.govtrack.us/about/analysis#prognosis/factors | http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr152