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USA: Add Events to Action Parsing #1186

Closed NewAgeAirbender closed 4 months ago

NewAgeAirbender commented 5 months ago

We scrape the bulk data pages for Bill data, for example HR 6854. On the congress website, Actions are listed in this table and we want to capture the Hearings listed in the Actions. If there's an Action item with 'Sub|Committee Hearing Held' with the date we want to capture that as an Event. There is a Committee or Subcommittee name on that Action item to serve as participants & should have the Bill as a related entity, the location can just be set as Washington, DC 20004.

Another example bill is S 382, the 'Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held.` would be the Event name.

braykuka commented 4 months ago

@NewAgeAirbender, Do you want to add an event for such activity? If then, there should be a location name for it.

Or just you want to add it as an activity named "Hearing by" instead of the original activity text? In this case, how can we add a bill and committee names?

Thanks.

NewAgeAirbender commented 4 months ago

Updated the description to reflect your questions. We've changed the scope to only scrape from the Actions section & included a default location to set for the Event. If there's anything else, let me know!