Joshua Tauberer

As @DanielSchuman wrote in #3, > it also may be useful to have the citations to the US code link to the US Code (using the pre-built parser) or the...

Support Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish

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This is a draft PR combining #1752, #2008, and some additional changes to prepare for switching our support to Ubuntu 22.04, which is the next long-term support release coming in...

Updates

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Hi all. I'm working on an update to https://uslaw.link/. Here are some updates to citation. The first few commits in this PR are just about updating packages with security issues....

drop XML output files

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When we first created this repo I need to create GovTrack-XML-compatible output for bills and amendments. As far as I know, I'm the only person who has ever used the...

The Senate has a file that lists activity for the day ahead. My scraper is here: https://github.com/govtrack/govtrack.us-web/blob/master/parser/bill_parser.py#L425 We should one day get around to having that in this repo.

Splitting this out from #90. stub: https://github.com/unitedstates/congress/wiki/nominations

replace the bioguide scraper with one that can do a deep parse of the bioguide

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This is a bit crazy, but it kind of works. The bioguide is written with a fairly consistent format. This commit replaces `bioguide.py` with a new deep parser for bioguide...

New House member data XML file

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The House Clerk is publishing a new member data file in XML linked from http://clerk.house.gov/: http://clerk.house.gov/xml/lists/MemberData.xml We should replace any scraper with this data where possible. H/t and big thanks...

Add legislator misconduct data?

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At GovTrack we're creating a database of legislator misconduct --- anything investigated by Congress's ethics offices or by law enforcement: https://www.govtrack.us/misconduct Is there interest in storing that data here? I...