Missing Links to Amendment Roll Calls

[jose-pvargas]

Per the documentation on amendments, I am expecting to find links to the roll call XML. However, amendments with roll calls, such as the 115th Congress's S. Amdt 667 and the 117th Congress's S.Amdt 889 do not have corresponding links to the roll call XML.

I've attached the BILLSTATUS XML for the resolutions that each amendment corresponds to, HR 1628 and SCONRES 5, respectively. bills-with-amendments-missing-rollcall-links.zip

[llaplant]

Hi, if possible, in lieu of a ZIP file, could you add a list of access ids to this issue? Thanks! Example: BILLSTATUS-117sconres5

[jose-pvargas]

Sure!

BILLSTATUS-117sconres5 and BILLSTATUS-115hr1628 are the two resolutions that I checked where I expected links to amendment roll calls.

[llaplant]

Thank you for bringing this to our attention!
It will likely require a code change that will be scheduled into an upcoming release.

[jose-pvargas]

Hi @llaplant. What is the latest status on this issue?

[llaplant]

Hi, @jose-pvargas a fix is currently in work, and it will be part of an upcoming govinfo release. When I have sample files from our development environment, I will post here. Thanks!

[jose-pvargas]

Great! Thank you for the update.

[llaplant]

@jose-pvargas, I added sample data from our development environment to https://github.com/usgpo/bill-status/tree/master/samples/amendment-votes. Could you check it out and let me know what you think?

[llaplant]

Tagging a few more people who have recently submitted issues to this repo. If you would also like to take a look, sample data from our development environment is in https://github.com/usgpo/bill-status/tree/master/samples/amendment-votes

@boisvert1975, @kboyd35, @joshdata, @wcarter, @dwillis, @acmcneal, @kbritton3, @sun-yujia, @aih, @anerbovig

[jose-pvargas]

Thanks for providing the updated samples @llaplant. I compared the samples that you shared with what we used to receive and previously, House votes would only include the XML URL in the <link> element. So for HR 5278, instead of

<links>
  <link>
    <name>Roll no. 287</name>
    <url>https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2016287</url>
    <url>https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2016/roll287.xml</url>
  </link>
</links>

we would previously receive

<links>
  <link>
    <name>Roll no. 287</name>
    <url>https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2016/roll287.xml</url>
  </link>
</links>

Is this something that can be handled on your end to keep backwards compatibility? Otherwise, we'll need to update our client to ignore non-XML URLs for House votes.

The XML for the Senate vote links look the same.

[llaplant]

@jose-pvargas new sample files are available https://github.com/usgpo/bill-status/tree/master/samples/amendment-votes

[jose-pvargas]

@llaplant The data looks good to me. Thanks for the update!

[jose-pvargas]

Hi @llaplant, do you have an update on when this will be released?

[llaplant]

@jose-pvargas, we are working with our data partners, and if all goes well we are targeting the end of next week. Due to a recent update, this change requires coordination on deployments for systems at two different organizations.

[llaplant]

@jose-pvargas, please let us know if this meets expectations.

https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/114/hr/BILLSTATUS-114hr5278.xml https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/117/sconres/BILLSTATUS-117sconres5.xml

[jose-pvargas]

Thanks @llaplant. SCONRES 5 looks good. However, for https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/114/hr/BILLSTATUS-114hr5278.xml, the link to rollcall https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2016/roll287.xml only appears under the latestAction section, and not under the individual action elements as mentioned in the amendment documentation.

[jonquandt]

@jose-pvargas - thanks for the note. We are looking into that issue with our data partners.

[jose-pvargas]

@jonquandt What's the status of this issue?

[jonquandt]

@jose-pvargas We're still coordinating with our data partners and awaiting a change in order for that information to flow through again. Timing is TBD, but likely not until Spring.

[104PL104]

update - scheduled for fix in PROD on June 13, 2022

[llaplant]

Links to roll call votes appear under the latestAction section and also the individual action element. Example https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/114/hr/BILLSTATUS-114hr5278.xml.