Chris Wilson

I think we can get it all straight from THOMAS. Every amendment has a link to "text of amendment," which links to a landing page, which in turn links to...

Very good suggestion. Otherwise, THOMAS appears to behave differently based on the length of the text, since some amendments are all of 200 words. The CapitalWords project looks awesome, but...

Actually, does this URL structure mean anything to anyone? http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r113:S12MR3-0044:/ That's what I get if I use the share button in the upper right and go to "save" for SA27,...

Thx, Gordon! Just pushed a branch called amendment_text. I'm having some encoding nightmares, so there's a sloppy catch in the utils unescape function right now with a URL in the...

I made rework to just pull the text file of amendments from each day's CR. e.g. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-2013-03-21/html/CREC-2013-03-21-pt1-PgS2169.htm Much easier to download this file and regex it than crawl through THOMAS

Awesome, will do. Has anyone tried to parse the amendment text and connect to the original legislation? e.g., for "On page 4, line 6, decrease the amount by $20,000,000,000." to...

Any suggestions for how to integrate the fdsys routines into the amendment task, thus grabbing the unadulterated text of the amendment directly from GPO? I have the script to download...

Awesome, thank you! On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Eric Mill [email protected] wrote: > ...whoa. Even this "crude demo" is more interesting than anything I've > seen yet...

The ["amendment_text" branch](https://github.com/unitedstates/congress/tree/amendment_text) now has a "parse" command that attempts to interpret the text of the amendments (which now are retrieved from GPO). It's smart enough to figure out how...

Thanks! Will take a lot more. All help much appreciated.