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Hi. I was using committee membership xml files where all the members are coded in their govtrack id numbers (the structure of these files is shown below for your reference). I have downloaded these fi…
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# New Senator Photos Missing
When checking for photos of the 115th Congress, four or the seven freshman members of Senate do not yet have photos. This is probably because the GPO hasn't posted the …
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Much of the party information is flawed or straight-up inaccurate. In addition, it doesn't seem like there has been any attempt to standardize the names—a few names differ only in capitalization (e.g.…
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```
first: Buddy
last: Carter
official_full: Earl L. "Buddy" Carter
```
to:
```
first: Garland
last: Barr
nickname: Andy
official_full: Andy Barr
```
I like th…
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Post your response to our challenge questions.
First, write down two intuitions you have about broad content patterns you will discover in your data. These can be the same as those from last week..…
lkcao updated
8 months ago
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We're trying to match the terms in here (got the yaml data from GovTrack) to the terms we have in our system. While doing that I've come across a bunch of officials who had incorrect term dates.
The r…
vadvv updated
9 years ago
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The House Clerk is publishing a new member data file in XML linked from http://clerk.house.gov/:
http://clerk.house.gov/xml/lists/MemberData.xml
We should replace any scraper with this data where po…
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Hi, here on Win 7 x64 using `| more` on:
`curl -s https://theunitedstates.io/congress-legislators/legislators-current.json | jaq.exe --color=never .[] | more`
it shows:
```
?┼?=>?┼┼????=>?????
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Hello, I am trying to compile a spreadsheet containing the current members of congress and the committees they belong too. While the member endpoint has lots of information for each member of congress…
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See also:
- #4
This issue will collect notes on things that the user should be able to configure for a specific table using a `tablename.config.json` or `tablename.config.yaml` file.