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Include text of amendments voted on

Open GPHemsley opened this issue 12 years ago • 4 comments

I seem to recall chatter about gathering this data over at @unitedstates, but I don't know what the outcome was. If we could, it would be really helpful to know what amendments Congress was voting on. (Otherwise, votes like "On Agreeing to the Amendment: Amendment 1 to H R 444" are mostly useless.)

GPHemsley avatar Feb 07 '13 07:02 GPHemsley

This would be good. The text of amendments is only in the Congressional Record. I can give you my old Perl scraper and maybe we can convert it into Python.

JoshData avatar Mar 09 '13 16:03 JoshData

See https://github.com/unitedstates/congress/issues/52

GPHemsley avatar Apr 10 '13 19:04 GPHemsley

I think this is probably what I'll be working on soon, right?

GPHemsley avatar Oct 15 '13 16:10 GPHemsley

Just the metadata first.

Eric mentioned to me yesterday that Sunlight might be working on getting amendment text soon.

JoshData avatar Oct 15 '13 16:10 JoshData