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The Django source code for the GovTrack.us website.
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Include text of amendments voted on #2

Open GPHemsley opened 11 years ago

GPHemsley commented 11 years ago

I seem to recall chatter about gathering this data over at @unitedstates, but I don't know what the outcome was. If we could, it would be really helpful to know what amendments Congress was voting on. (Otherwise, votes like "On Agreeing to the Amendment: Amendment 1 to H R 444" are mostly useless.)

JoshData commented 11 years ago

This would be good. The text of amendments is only in the Congressional Record. I can give you my old Perl scraper and maybe we can convert it into Python.

GPHemsley commented 11 years ago

See https://github.com/unitedstates/congress/issues/52

GPHemsley commented 10 years ago

I think this is probably what I'll be working on soon, right?

JoshData commented 10 years ago

Just the metadata first.

Eric mentioned to me yesterday that Sunlight might be working on getting amendment text soon.