Joshua Tauberer

Hi @wbt. I purposefully did the emojis the way it is because I actually want to _avoid_ having the appearance of reporting public sentiment on legislation, knowing that any sort...

That makes a lot of sense.

I don't understand what change to GovTrack you're suggesting.

Folks, I'm glad you're thinking about democracy but this isn't the place to speculate about ideas. Especially since there are endless groups already doing the things mentioned above.

Unfortunately we never added migrations. The source code is old enough that there wasn't such a thing as migrations when it was first written. We should tho - if you...

It's for SEO. I'm not sure it necessarily helps, but traffic to the site is up over the last year so something is working right!

Let's start with a combination just like this. The sorts are not currently instrumented in analytics.

Hi, Kashif. I suppose it's not in the API yet. You can get it from either of the two bulk data sources mentioned here: http://www.govtrack.us/developers These relations are identified by...

We have a VoteCategory enumeration that is at least separating out some of the vote types. We may need to add some regexes for other types. Then we just need...

I added some try/except clauses: https://github.com/JoshData/congressxml/commit/680c8dc2fd0e43feae198de2e5788f7c1ba5d42c That eliminated the last of the oops messages.