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...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Feb 8, 2011 7:12 pm
But it doesn't have subcommittees, which I think is what Josh meant....
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Eric Mill
konklone
Feb 8, 2011 9:24 pm
So here's something, the "Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe": http://www.csce.gov/ <http://www.csce.gov/>This came through the official Senate...
Hey, all. I am thinking of normalizing the "type" field in roll call vote files. Most won't change but I'll correct typos in the upstream data sources and I...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Feb 16, 2011 3:29 pm
I've actually been doing some normalization using that field as well, for our Real Time Congress API. It only works for a subset of them, of course, but my...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Feb 16, 2011 11:48 pm
The type is also repeated in the <question> element. For whatever reason, the scrapers make the <question> be TYPE + " :" + BILL/AMENDMENT/OTHER in the House...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Feb 17, 2011 3:34 pm
That sounds like a good approach. When I was doing this myself, I also contemplated normalizing it into two fields: vote_type, and vote_on. So a vote on an...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Feb 19, 2011 2:34 am
All GovTrack APIs that have ".xpd" in the URL are now deprecated. These are: * The bill search API at http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billsearch_api.xpd * The...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Feb 19, 2011 10:01 pm
In the event that anyone has been using the photo of Former Senator Nathan Smith, the Anti-Jacksonian that served for Connecticut during 1833-1835, please note...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Feb 24, 2011 9:08 pm
On H.R. 2965, the DADT Repeal Act from December 2010, the only <vote> elements are from the bill's past life as a small business bill, before it got shelled...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Feb 25, 2011 11:38 pm
Got it. Also did (or is doing, not sure if it's done) a full re-parse of the data with a few other vote fixes. Btw, Congress 3.0 is looking great. Everyone...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Feb 26, 2011 12:07 am
Thanks on both counts! :)...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Mar 7, 2011 8:56 pm
Quick bug report - a couple of committees are having their hearings turn up with blank committee_ids in GovTrack's XML feed: ...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Mar 8, 2011 7:35 pm
Got it, thanks! - Josh Tauberer - CivicImpulse / GovTrack.us http://razor.occams.info | www.govtrack.us | civicimpulse.com "Members of both sides are reminded...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Mar 18, 2011 4:07 pm
Small bug report: H.R. 1148 is referred in part to the House Ethics committee, and is missing the "HSSO" code to go along with it: ...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Mar 29, 2011 3:54 pm
Another bug report - a number of House committees in the schedule are having their IDs come up blank, and their names end with an extra comma and space: ...
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andy51488
Apr 9, 2011 11:45 am
Hey guys, I just had to switch over to Godaddy hosting for my site, and it looks like they block rsync. Any ideas for work-arounds? Thanks....
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Apr 16, 2011 5:32 pm
Sorry I don't have any workarounds. I'm open to distributing the files in another way, but rsync is the only method I've come across that seems to do basically...
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Ted Han
knowtheory
Apr 17, 2011 12:49 pm
Hey Josh, Out of curiosity couldn't you set the files up as a tree of git repositories, such that each higher node contains a collection of submodules? That'd...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Apr 23, 2011 8:34 pm
The new House site, in preview, looks like it has clean HTML5 for the parsing, including the daily and archived committee hearings and markup sessions. ...
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Derek Willis
derekpwillis
Apr 24, 2011 1:02 am
It's nice to see, certainly, but the idea that the House's new media team would think to use HTML5 and not to offer feeds for committee and floor schedules is...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Apr 24, 2011 2:27 am
I don't remember an RSS feed on the last session's floor schedule...are you sure? I know of the House Clerk's awful (but scrapeable) floor schedule: ...
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Derek Willis
derekpwillis
Apr 24, 2011 2:34 am
Yeah, I meant Hoyer's office when he was majority leader. I don't have a reservation about such feeds because the majority leader sets the official schedule...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Apr 24, 2011 2:43 am
Right, but if it's run by a position which is by nature transitory, it will inevitably change more frequently, and parsers built against it will break. It's...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Apr 24, 2011 4:59 pm
Well it's an interesting idea, but I don't know if it would solve the original problem. If you can't do rsync, you probably can't do git either. - Josh...
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Dale E. Moore
daleemoore
Apr 25, 2011 11:51 am
iirc GoDaddy has Linux shell accounts where you can install rsync, git, or whatever. You might contact their support and (with a little encouragement from you)...
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Eric Mill
konklone
May 9, 2011 3:31 pm
I think this issue got fixed for a bit, but it is back again, lots of blank committee IDs: http://www.govtrack.us/data/us/112/committeeschedule.xml...
