committee

generates a congressional committee report

setup

clone the project

git clone https://github.com/slippers/committee.git

refresh the data

git clone https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators

put this script in the scripts folder. execute to refresh

from subprocess import check_call, Popen

scripts = ['house_contacts.py',
'house_websites.py',
'senate_contacts.py',
'committee_membership.py',
'historical_committees.py',
'social_media.py',
'influence_ids.py',
]

for x in scripts:
    donkey = check_call(['python', x])
    print(x, donkey)

git clone https://github.com/TheWalkers/congress-legislators

this is where legislators-district-offices.yaml can be found do not know how it gets generated.

now copy these refreshed yaml files into the committee project folder

• committee-membership-current.yaml
• legislators-current.yaml
• committees-current.yaml
• legislators-district-offices.yaml

execute the extract.py

python extract.py

this will compose a new dataset from the yaml files. convert into markdown and then translate into html.

delete report.pickle to compose the data again.