Open GPHemsley opened 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.
I think this is probably what I'll be working on soon, right?
Just the metadata first.
Eric mentioned to me yesterday that Sunlight might be working on getting amendment text soon.
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.)