This one's in people.xml. Bobby Jindal carries a PVS id (26879<http://votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=26879>) which has apparently been retired and replaced...
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Ben Woosley
benwoosley
May 2, 2010 1:22 am
Assuming you're getting this id from the Sunlight Labs data<http://github.com/sunlightlabs/apidata>, I've updated my fork...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
May 2, 2010 3:32 pm
... Right I was forced into this because earlier in Congressional history (esp at the beginning) Congresses didn't line up with years very nicely. In fact,...
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Eric Mill
konklone
May 2, 2010 8:17 pm
And I'll make sure Sunlight updates the PVS ID for Bobby Jindal....
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Ben Woosley
benwoosley
May 3, 2010 12:36 am
Thanks Josh, On rolls, you might consider using the new, year-less scheme across the board, with soft links or the like aliasing the xml to the old naming ...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
May 12, 2010 2:52 am
... Ah but the House and Senate currently reset their numbering at the start of each calendar year, so e.g. there are two roll #1's in each chamber for the...
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Michael Bluestein
mike_bluestein
May 13, 2010 12:14 am
There is a new version of Congress111 in the app store for anyone that is interested. The ui has been updated along with the Congressional database. There is...
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Harvey Frey
hsfrey
May 24, 2010 11:59 pm
Has anyone tried downloading bills from Thomas in HTML format, or converting their Text downloads to HTML? The guy at the Thomas help desk at first didn't...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
May 25, 2010 12:30 am
... Fixed. Note sure who it was either but I re-scanned them and they're ok now. Thanks. ... I got Critz (thanks to Steve Toub from MAPLight). Someone should...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
May 25, 2010 1:27 am
That's what GovTrack does to get bill text. http://www.govtrack.us/data/us/bills.text/111/h/h3590.html I clean the HTML and make sure it's well-formed XML...
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Harvey Frey
hsfrey
May 25, 2010 6:14 am
Josh: What I'm trying to do is clean it up so the section hierarchy is displayed, and add hyperlinks to the text from the TOC. This is an excerpt of the TOC....
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Eric Mill
konklone
May 25, 2010 9:20 pm
This article says it'll happen by 5pm today: http://watchdog.org/4001/hours-until-hawaii-congressman-elect-djou-is-sworn-in/ -- Eric...
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Derek Willis
derekpwillis
May 25, 2010 10:51 pm
It already happened - he was sworn in and he was eligible for votes starting with 296. Derek...
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Eric Mill
konklone
May 26, 2010 1:32 am
Another five roll call files with legislator IDs of "0", h2010-86 through h2010-90. Not sure who that's for. Also, as a heads up, you've got another couple...
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Neil M.
nabber00
May 26, 2010 1:59 am
I've got an old python script that takes the US Code text files (from http://uscode.house.gov), scans for references and outputs mediawiki formatted pages and...
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Harvey Frey
hsfrey
May 26, 2010 2:23 am
Hi Neil: Thanks for the response! I simply want to use the 'contents' section of a bill to hyperlink to the actual text paragraphs within the same bill, to...
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Neil M.
nabber00
May 26, 2010 10:06 am
I had some free time, something like this? http://www.nabber.org/media/HR3590.html Neil...
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Harvey Frey
hsfrey
May 26, 2010 6:09 pm
Neil: Precisely! :-D Thank You! Did you write a script to do that? Manually it would surely have taken more than a little "free time" !! Harvey...
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Neil M.
nabber00
May 27, 2010 3:56 am
Yes I wrote a quick Python script if anyone wants it just let me know. Neil...
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Harvey Frey
hsfrey
May 27, 2010 4:03 am
... Yes, please! It does need a little manual post-editing, since the section numbers in amended texts can be (and are) duplicates. Harvey...
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Eric Mill
konklone
May 28, 2010 7:00 pm
I've spotted what I think is an <action> that should be a <vote>, in the following House bill: http://www.govtrack.us/data/us/111/bills/h4899.xml <action...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
May 29, 2010 6:00 pm
Thanks. There was a stray parenthesis in the text on THOMAS which of course tends to confuse the scraper. It's fixed now. - Josh Tauberer - CivicImpulse ...
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Eric Mill
konklone
May 30, 2010 11:48 am
Thanks, Josh!...
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jlundigard
Jun 2, 2010 4:51 am
Hey Josh, I'm noticing some mal-formed XML in some of the bill text files. For example, on line 10750 of 111/h/h4173_rfs-eas.xml (this is a cmp of the...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jun 14, 2010 1:11 pm
I think anyone interested in this is probably already on the sunlightlabs list, but belatedly just in case.... ... Subject: [sunlightlabs] The Drumbone API ...
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Jack
jackangelo
Jun 16, 2010 4:47 pm
Has anyone found a way to only pull bill data from bills that have had a last action update in say the last 24 hours? I would like to be able to create a list...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Jun 16, 2010 5:09 pm
You might find the Drumbone API useful for that, as it has a last_action_at timestamp that you can sort on. It doesn't support date range requests (yet), but...
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Jack
jackangelo
Jun 16, 2010 5:17 pm
Some days I am so dense. Obviously I can just look at the last modified date for each bill in the bills subdirectory unless someone has a better idea that gets...
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Jack
jackangelo
Jun 16, 2010 5:21 pm
Josh, How often do you update the photo subdirectory with changes e.g. Scott Brown? What is the process used? I there any way your user community can help?...
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Jack Angelo
jackangelo
Jun 16, 2010 5:30 pm
Eric, thanks. I will check it out. jack ... Jack Angelo jangelo42@......
