Eric Mill

@dwillis You interested in starting a repo? Or was there a particular person on the NICAR list that was spearheading it?

Definitely, as a starting point. I'm pretty big on readability and accessibility though, not legal precision. So I imagine they'd need a lot of rewriting.

I'm a huge proponent of committee information. Committee voting records, in particular, never surface in any free data source, because of how difficult they are to collect. You've described really...

Hi @eheitfield! Very nice work, and thanks for offering to integrate this data! Are you using it anywhere yourself? Would you mind taking a look over the current bioguide parsing...

Actually, some of us have been talking about standing up the CFPB's new [eRegs tool](http://www.consumerfinance.gov/eregulations/1005) for the FAR. The CFPB very smartly [broke out their open source](http://eregs.github.io/eregulations/) into 3 components,...

I suspect the place to start is [regulations-parser](https://github.com/cfpb/regulations-parser#pull-down-the-regulation-text) - take the text of the FAR (which CFR Title and Part is it?) and run it through the parser, see what...

Wow, thanks, @waldoj. I admit, I'm not sure the best way to prioritize these, for exactly the tension you described - but this is very helpful to have on hand....

I think we'll want to be more careful - if 'person' has been defined over 100 times in Virginia law, it has 100 different legal definitions. For terms with multiple...

Agreed. I was thinking about a "Tags: one, two, three" at the bottom of an entry, that our parser would read in as an array. This wouldn't be enough to...

I agree - though I am (probably temporarily) moving the terms imported from the State Decoded into a "legal" directory, and the congressional terms into a "congress" directory. Until things...