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Non-Standard Committee Names in Bill Digest Files #143

Closed anerbovig closed 4 years ago

anerbovig commented 4 years ago

Good morning,

A handful of updated bill digests changed the element under in the bill digest files, even though the is consistent.

For example, in September the bill digest file for S. 609 had: "Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee"

The latest update from 11/16 changed this to: "HELP Committee"

For H.R. 3020, the committee named in the 11/08 digest was: "House Transportation and Infrastructure"

The 11/16 update changed the name to: "House Transportation"

The name variants are causing some hiccups on our end even though the system code is correct. Would it be possible to return the committee names to their standard format for all bills that were referred to the Transportation and Infrastructure and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committees? Thank you!

Edit: It looks like it's causing the same problems on Congress.gov--when I filter for legislation under the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee, I get zero results for the 115th and 116th Congresses: https://www.congress.gov/search?searchResultViewType=expanded&q=%7B%22source%22%3A%22legislation%22%2C%22senate-committee%22%3A%22Health%2C+Education%2C+Labor%2C+and+Pensions%22%7D

104PL104 commented 4 years ago

Thank you for reporting this. We will get it corrected ASAP.

anerbovig commented 4 years ago

Hello, following up on this one, is this how we should expect to see committee names come through going forward, or will the bill digests be updated with the full name for Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions under the element? The following bill digests came through a 2/10 update with "Senate HELP" listed which is throwing off some name matching on our end. Thanks!

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3114 2019-12-20T05:57:22Z 2020-02-10T17:07:10Z Senate S 2019-12-19 116 sshr00 HELP Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2019-12-19T18:15:46Z `` SRES227 SRES426 S1045 S1019 S1070 S1146 S1670 S1577 S1617 S1659 S1851 S2723 S2124 S977 S1966 S2036 S2123 S2677 S2885 S2367 S2515 S2559 S2887 S3158 S3163 S2997 HR2507 S1017 S1516 S1175 S1387 S1435 S1486 S1525 S1674 S1549 S1738 S2736 S967 S2719 S1993 S2089 S3114 SRES273 SRES366 SRES291 SRES405 S1350 S1221 S1281 S1672 S1536 S2857 S1668 S2784 S1836 S1835 S1927 S2158 S2161 S2205 S2902 S2296 S2536 S2554 S2598 S3166 S3092 SRES205 SRES436 S1067 S1401 S1483 S1532 S1541 S1681 S1688 S1796 S1855 S2721 S1920 S1921 S2709 S976 S2675 S2304 S887 S2387 S2405 S2406 S2600 S2937 S3243 S3011 S3028 HR36 HR4372
llaplant commented 4 years ago

Source data is being corrected and BILLSTATUS files on govinfo will be updated shortly.

jzheng-gpo commented 4 years ago

All 97 files are refreshed now. Please review.

anerbovig commented 4 years ago

Thank you! I see that the committee element now has "Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee"