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propublica / Capitol-Words

Scraping, parsing and indexing the daily Congressional Record to support phrase search over time, and by legislator and date
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"other" filter for party returns no legislators #22

Closed sbma44 closed 13 years ago

sbma44 commented 13 years ago

wherefore art thou, Bernie?

drinks commented 13 years ago

Related: There are some ambiguous party affiliations in the API dataset, see gist: https://gist.github.com/c859fdd384031f08bdb1

Should we make a determination on some of these? Surely Manchin can be switched to Democrat, but the others may not be as clear-cut. We should also take another look at the import process for the sake of future data integrity.

drinks commented 13 years ago

Front-end issue fixed in ff28b21