Joshua Tauberer

historical data has some obvious date problems

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There are a bunch of terms where a start date is before a previous term's end date. These can be found easily by activating the test at https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators/blob/master/test/validate.py#L179 Would be...

Swearing-in dates following special elections may be wrong

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I'm not sure if I've/we've ever used the Bioguide to fill in swearing-in dates (anything recent was probably done with knowledge of current events), but KG says that "special elections...

New data; Historical swearing-in and resignation dates

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Joe Carmel points out that the Biographical Directory publication at GPO has footnotes that have swearing in and resignation dates. Not clear if it's the same as what appears in...

The current Res.Comm. serves four year terms and this is fixed in the -current file. Need to see what needs fixing in the historical file.

Versioning, changelog, notices of updates to the data format

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A few related questions: - Can we assign version numbers to the data format and put those version numbers in the data files so that looking at a file it's...

amendments are missing amendedBill fields

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Several bills have amendments that are missing fields. https://www.gpo.gov//fdsys/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/115/hr/BILLSTATUS-115hr5.xml: ```` Regulatory Accountability Act of 2017 House H ```` amendedBill is supposed to contain `congress`, `type`, and `number` fields. This change...

Little suggestion: Use https://github.com/unitedstates/congress to try parsing the files before you push them into FDSys, so that you know the problems I'm going to file issues about before I file...

I'd love to have this tool take command-line arguments like: ``` pdf-redactor --title "New TItle" --xmp=remove --content-replace "\d{3}-\d{2}-\d{4}" "###-##-####" . . . ```