Joshua Tauberer

Well I'm not sure where the risk is exactly. The thing I patched in rtyaml was the confusing behavior related to octal notation serialization. vanilla yaml: ``` one_int: 1 one_string:...

No, sorry, I mean unquoted!

I just looked at one ([Huffman](http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000913)) and it appears that the birthday is correct but the terms aren't - there are term records that are completely bogus (wrong century, wrong...

It was a one time scrape... almost a decade ago. We don't have an established process now to update from bioguide although there are some scripts that get part of...

Running that to at least detect big errors (birthday years and term years) would be useful, even if we can't automatically fill in the complete date. ([This script](https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators/blob/master/scripts/bioguide.py) should be...

Tests added! :)

It looks like nodeunit is permanently broken --- I can't get it to install on Travis, so the build is failing. But it works fine locally and tests are passing....

Nice catch! Ok finally got it working.

@dwillis points out that there's XML at http://www.senate.gov/general/XML.htm, so we should transition the scraper to use that instead.

It would be nice to have the full action history (only on Congress.gov?), but either data source is fine with me.