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A number of legislators have large gaps between the end of one term and the start of their next. At the heart of my concern is determining how the "end" fields of terms are/were populated (excluding t…
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In the EventManager file, in chapter "Moving Displaying Legislators to a Method" it is stated: "We want to extract our legislator names into a new method named legislators_by_zipcode which accepts a s…
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Hey @konklone fec_ids should probably not go in the id section because they can change. (Candidate ids start with the chamber--house id's start with an 'H' and senate ids start with an 'S').
To comp…
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The govtrack data has been supplanted by @unitedstates congress and congress-legislators repos.
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Anyone considered adding caucus membership? Would be useful to have which party independents caucus with as well as CBC and CHC membership, etc. Happy to contribute -- any leads appreciated. (I'm not …
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There are actually two separate issues here which may or may not be solved with a single solution:
- How do we best associate a term with a single Congress (Representatives)?
- How do we best associat…
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Hi guys,
I have completed my name mapping and maplight mapping, the results are here but include the name changes. need some time or help to extract just the maplight without the name changes for mer…
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In the vote data for the 110th Congress there are many legislator ids that say "0000000", which is invalid. I guess it's a problem w/ the source data and nothing we can do about it. A workaround mig…
swt83 updated
11 years ago
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Working code is already committed, but just wanted to get this written out and see if anyone has any suggestions for changes. I don't imagine that we would publicize this as a feature, but just use it…
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