Joshua Tauberer
54654124cd
voteview: handle votes whose options are names of people rather than aye/no/etc, e.g. election of speaker, using a new CSV file which has the codes manually worked out
2015-11-02 15:21:12 -05:00
Joshua Tauberer
7b517fcc56
voteview: attempt to fix more dates by ignoring dates that aren't even in the right Congress
2015-07-23 20:19:16 -04:00
Joshua Tauberer
fbdbc76243
voteview: paired votes are recorded as not voting, not as having voted the indicated way
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My Perl scraper used to treat these votes correctly as not voting. My rewrite with Gordon here changed the logic because I thought it had been wrong, but it was right.
2015-07-23 12:01:50 -04:00
Joshua Tauberer
770d19ccc2
voteview: parse vote result (Passed, Rejected, etc.) out of the free-form description field
2015-07-08 08:12:36 -04:00
Joshua Tauberer
a35c728b4a
voteview: parse related bill info
2014-10-27 10:07:06 -04:00
Joshua Tauberer
210e59181b
finish parsing voteview roll call vote data files
2014-09-30 18:54:12 -04:00
Joshua Tauberer
b3b8ff068f
voteview: put votes back into sessions for conformity with modern vote data
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This reverts commit 057b0c917e04d494856f
2014-05-17 11:25:18 -04:00
Will Van Wazer
04d494856f
Automated PEP8 refactoring with autopep8.
2014-04-28 22:39:50 -04:00
Joshua Tauberer
b82295463b
voteview: clean up invalid dates as best we can
2014-04-18 23:41:07 -04:00
Joshua Tauberer
7aed6cc1e5
voteview: cleanup
2014-04-18 08:20:17 -04:00
Joshua Tauberer
057b0c917e
voteview: don't try to put votes into sessions because the dates on votes here and my session dates in sessions.tsv are not very reliable
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Just put everything into a session "X" for comformity for how we create IDs for and paths for contemporary roll call votes.
2014-01-30 11:48:24 -05:00
Joshua Tauberer
a6add00508
voteview: when looking up the IDs of presidents use the icpsr_prez field because these IDs are not the same as the IDs for Members of Congress when they are in Congress
2014-01-30 11:48:24 -05:00
Gordon P. Hemsley
dd5d6f01f4
Keep track of president's BioGuide ID, if it's available.
2013-11-01 13:07:20 -04:00
Gordon P. Hemsley
22afa2c6c5
Improve parsing of voteview files, including a number of date formats.
2013-10-30 15:20:18 -04:00
Joshua Tauberer
7f28281d16
voteview: make sure we're using the right .ord/.dtl URLs by scraping the .htm page listed on voteview.com for <a> hrefs, and report date parsing problems
2013-10-06 19:08:37 -04:00
Joshua Tauberer
6ea1daa7fe
voteview: determine which session of Congress the vote occurs in using GovTrack's sessions.tsv, hook into vote_info.output_vote() for writing JSON and XML, and separate the president's position from Member votes
2013-10-06 18:24:31 -04:00
Gordon P. Hemsley
6acff86fdb
Begin parser for voteview rollcall info. (Currently supports up to the 106th Congress.)
2013-09-16 15:58:50 -04:00
