Chris Wilson
Chris Wilson
Awesome! This stalled over issues of where the raw text of amendments is stored in the CR, particularly in the House. I was following links from THOMAS to the CR...
Gotcha. I'll dive back in this week and give a more detailed report. Thanks for nudge.
The reason I scraped it was I needed to match each term for each legislator to a session of Congress (or multiple for senators). It's a little tricky because there...
Sure, will do. The baked-in population data is super useful. I actually use QGIS to clip the political boundaries to the land boundaries so that Michigan doesn't look so weird....
I'll take a hack if time ever permits. Now for the hard part: Are we still a Python shop or can I use Node? Be gentle.
I saw that after I wrote this! Will play around.
Sounds like a really fun task. We'd also need to optionally ignore subjunctions and articles, e.g. "Uniting (and) Strengthening America (by) Providing Appropriate Tools Required (to) Intercept (and) Obstruct Terrorism...
I can take a stab at revisiting this. Senate calendar from FDSys still seem like a good place to start? @schmod, where is the XML metadata that has the content...
I think that would work just fine. There should probably still be a raw COUNT field that always means the same thing, and this flag would add a data property...
Does it normally work with command-line lessify? Usually that error means node-lessify isn't in the correct place in the package.json