Congressional Official Travel Reports

DanielSchuman commented 11 years ago

Which official travel reports are you looking for? The ones reimbursed from noncongressional sources (http://www.opencongress.org/wiki/House_Office_of_the_Clerk#Gift_and_Travel_Filings)? The foreign travel reports and expenditures (http://www.opencongress.org/wiki/House_Office_of_the_Clerk#Foreign_Travel_Reports_and_Expenditures)? Or something else

dwillis commented 11 years ago

The official travel ones, commonly referred to as codels.

tompscanlan commented 2 years ago

This idea popped into my head today. I'm not sure how to get official records for travel, but it ought to be possible to build a timeline of locations the person was at based on news reports. I'm thinking something like:

id: bioguide: xxxx timeline:
- location: whitehouse, Washington DC description: xxxx had dinner with the president in the evening date: 04-11-2022 evening sources:
  - web: http://cnn.com/some-story.html
  - newspaper: name-of-paper, date, page
  - video: youtube.com/video-of-event

Initially, I'm thinking adding these things manually, but with an eye towards parsing out the person, place, date, and description from a given source.

Thoughts?

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