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...
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Eric Mill
konklone
May 15, 2011 6:03 pm
The blank IDs have gone away...but so have all the House committee meetings. There are a few coming up on the 24th, 25th, and 26th....
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
May 17, 2011 8:42 pm
I'm sorry I haven't gotten on this yet. Things have been real busy at POPVOX and also I'm trying to get GovTrack 2.0 going... - Josh Tauberer - CivicImpulse ...
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Eric Mill
konklone
May 23, 2011 8:07 pm
I think you might need to regenerate a couple vote files, there are two "0" IDs on each of these vote files: ...
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Peggy Garvin
pgrvn
May 26, 2011 4:01 pm
Does GovTrack draw on tweets tagged in format "#usbill #hrN?" Peggy...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
May 26, 2011 5:26 pm
No. Maybe I should add something like that.... -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Peggy Garvin <pgrvn@...> wrote: ...
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codekiln
May 31, 2011 4:05 pm
I found out about the govtrack database from my post [1] over at the google group for Sunlight Labs' API. As I mentioned there, I have a list of CRP ID /...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
May 31, 2011 4:18 pm
Hi, Peter. ... people.xml's "Source Data" page for committees.xml on Govtrack? The committee data is automatically scraped from ...
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Derek Willis
derekpwillis
May 31, 2011 4:25 pm
In constructing committee membership data for the NYT Congress API, I used data found via Charles Stewart's site: ...
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codekiln
May 31, 2011 5:42 pm
Darek and Josh, Thanks for the citations and the info. Using people.xml I was able to extract ICPSRID for 165 out of the 793 identities I am researching; I've...
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Derek Willis
derekpwillis
May 31, 2011 5:51 pm
Peter, We have ICPSRIDs for more than 2,600 members - if you think that would be a valuable addition to the API, I'm happy to add that to the members response....
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codekiln
Jun 2, 2011 3:54 pm
Hi Darek, Thanks for your detailed response. Your record of ICPSRIDs would be a valuable to the project I am working on, but I have no idea if ICPSRIDs belong...
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Derek Willis
derekpwillis
Jun 2, 2011 3:59 pm
Hey Peter, I think we'll put them in anyway, but I think the bioguide ID should be the canonical reference. Derek...
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Eric Mill
konklone
Jun 2, 2011 4:17 pm
Some 0's are now now occurring in some House votes as well: http://www.govtrack.us/data/us/112/rolls/h2011-388.xml Might this be Kathy Hochul, from the NY-26...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jun 3, 2011 10:33 am
Roll call votes are all fixed, thanks! - Josh Tauberer - GovTrack.us / POPVOX.com http://razor.occams.info | www.govtrack.us | www.popvox.com...
