Gregory Foster

Create data directory hierarchy if not present

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Hello, and thank you for sharing and maintaining such a valuable project. I'm just getting started by way of [`legis-graph`](https://github.com/legis-graph/legis-graph) and intend to become a frequent user and hopefully a...

JSON repository appears to call item serialization twice on update vs. replace

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Building on the `JSONDirectoryRepo` framework, I implemented a model with a Pydantic `field_serializer` to convert a `Decimal` value to string. That worked well when calling the `BaseRepo` methods to `add`...

GovTrack.us to deprecate rsync bulk data access in Summer 2017

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Hello, and thank you for building such an interesting project. I'm just getting started and will likely be a frequent user and active participant here. I'm walking through the recommended...

Senate votes are indexed by lisID

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I have a use case where I am looking for votes on a Senate bill in the 112th Congress and didn't have any data showing up. It turns out that...

Bill data prior to 114th Congress does not include sponsor bioguide IDs

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Hello, and thanks again for a helpful project. I'm attempting to load data for the 112th Congress and ran into the following error when executing `parse_bills.sh`: ```bash $ ./parse.sh Traceback...

Parses and imports Senate votes.

While working in [`parse_votes.py`](https://github.com/legis-graph/legis-graph/blob/master/parse_votes.py#L21-L23) I noticed that the script is only parsing data for roll call votes on bill passage: I have use cases where I'd like to see data...

import.cypher - Include historical legislators

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`import.cypher` currently [does not](https://github.com/legis-graph/legis-graph/blob/master/import.cypher#L17-L26) import legislators from `outputs/legislators-historical.csv`; `load_legislators.cql` [does](https://github.com/legis-graph/legis-graph/blob/master/load_legislators.cql#L21-L27) - but it does not create the same relationships. I'd like to suggest an enhancement to bring the two import...

Historical legislator imports are working in `cypher.import`. See the comments especially regarding the implementation detail around early Legislators who had no Party affiliation.

I added [a](https://github.com/gregoryfoster/legis-graph/commit/f78f545fe95ba27047bce7b2d8588759bc685e77#commitcomment-21009074) [few](https://github.com/gregoryfoster/legis-graph/commit/f78f545fe95ba27047bce7b2d8588759bc685e77#commitcomment-21009075) [comments](https://github.com/gregoryfoster/legis-graph/commit/55e155ab7338e021b1bed841281c1871182b1cc2#commitcomment-21009033) to the commits to outline some of the substantive changes made. I tried to hew to the pattern of `-current` and `-historical` output files, but...