Hey all. Thanks to some help from Jeffrey and Emilie at MAPLight, the two people.xml files are updated for the 112th Congress (the current-only people.xml file...
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David Steinbrunner
elementcarbon
Jan 5, 2011 2:46 pm
... Early on I thought I had an off by one in my determining the date stuff myself but my findings, at least in this case, show that it is not the issue. I...
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Derek Willis
derekpwillis
Jan 5, 2011 2:58 pm
Now I remember this situation - the Clerk's office did not publish Gary Miller's votes in the initial portion of the 111th congress. He did vote, but the...
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Derek Willis
derekpwillis
Jan 6, 2011 3:05 pm
I've contacted the Clerk's office before about this issue but it's still there, so take that for what it's worth. I should note that in Gary Miller's case, as...
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David Steinbrunner
elementcarbon
Jan 6, 2011 3:39 pm
... Ok, looking at other examples in my speardsheets I'm seeing how vacancies and day of taking office appear to account for most of the issue but I'm not done...
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David Steinbrunner
elementcarbon
Jan 6, 2011 3:47 pm
... So the Clerk's site currently saying 0 vacancies is technically not correct it seems. In the subject of vacancy data, having a sworn in date or datetime...
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Derek Willis
derekpwillis
Jan 6, 2011 3:48 pm
Well, DeFazio was just sworn in, so now it's correct :-) On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:47 AM, David Steinbrunner...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jan 6, 2011 6:17 pm
And now we have the first batch of bills from yesterday's legislative day up and fully parsed (so far as there weren't any errors). - Josh Tauberer -...
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andy51488
Jan 7, 2011 8:24 pm
Hi all, New to the group - building a site that encourages interaction while still being an information source. I've been trying to use rsync on the data for...
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David Steinbrunner
elementcarbon
Jan 7, 2011 9:27 pm
... What does your rsync command look like and does the resulting output look like? -- David Steinbrunner...
The command needs your local filename at the end: rsync -azv --progress --stats govtrack.us::govtrackdata/us/112/people.xml people.xml - Luigi...
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Yannick Assogba
yannick.assogba
Jan 8, 2011 4:02 pm
I think you need a target path as the final argument to rsync. So for example 'rsync -azv --progress --stats govtrack.us::govtrackdata/us/112/people.xml .'...
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Luigi Montanez
luigi.montanez
Jan 8, 2011 4:02 pm
You need to specify your local filename at the end of the command: rsync -azv --progress --stats govtrack.us::govtrackdata/us/112/people.xml people.xml...
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andy51488
Jan 8, 2011 5:09 pm
You guys are awesome. Thank you very much!...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Jan 10, 2011 8:01 pm
Is there any difference between an amendment's description and purpose? Even when they are technically different, it only seems to be by a slight rephrasing. ...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jan 12, 2011 1:38 pm
I've got no insight on that one. Keep in mind the House and Senate may use the fields differently. - Josh Tauberer - CivicImpulse http://razor.occams.info ...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Jan 16, 2011 6:18 pm
Caught one on the vote to raise the federal debt ceiling last session: http://www.govtrack.us/data/us/111/bills/hj45.xml The House had a roll call vote that is...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Jan 26, 2011 9:16 pm
Hi, Quick bug report - S 4058 from the 111th Congress was signed and became a public law, but the GovTrack list of actions stops after "Signed by President",...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jan 29, 2011 6:57 pm
This is a weird one. They considered two parts of the bill separately, with the roll call relevant to only one part. I think this is beyond what I can mark...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Jan 29, 2011 7:45 pm
Hmm, I see what you mean. But it's still a <vote> anyway though, right? Even if part of it got "deemed" agreed to pursuant to some rule resolution, and the...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jan 30, 2011 2:33 pm
This probably was updated on THOMAS after I last scanned the 111th Congress in early January. I've rescanned the 111th. Thanks. - Josh Tauberer - CivicImpulse...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Jan 30, 2011 6:58 pm
Thanks! I had to do the same thing with my own scrapers. :) -- Eric...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Feb 5, 2011 5:32 pm
I've just made some data format changes. It's effective immediately because I had broken the data anyway. us/[session]/people.xml ... Removed:...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Feb 8, 2011 3:20 pm
Sweet, thanks for letting us know about this. An issue to report though: /data/us/112/committees.xml is missing Senators and Representatives new to the 112th. ...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Feb 8, 2011 5:15 pm
... Actually I'm pretty sure it's missing all representatives entirely. :) I'm waiting for clerk.house.gov to publish committee assignments. I'll look into the...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Feb 8, 2011 5:17 pm
Ah, I didn't look at the House closely enough. But the Senate upstream is actually up to date: http://senate.gov/general/committee_assignments/assignments.htm ...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Feb 8, 2011 5:22 pm
Ahha, they must have updated it in the last week or so. For some reason I don't run that scraper on a regular basis because I'm afraid it will break. Sadly, I...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Feb 8, 2011 5:22 pm
Oh and I've just updated the file. Thanks. - Josh Tauberer - CivicImpulse http://razor.occams.info http://www.civicimpulse.com "Yields falsehood when preceded...
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Derek Willis
derekpwillis
Feb 8, 2011 5:41 pm
The Senate assignments are now in the XML data: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS_MEMBER/cvc_member_data.xml Derek...
