congress-prep

Tools to bulk download and process legislative XML.

Playbook

Install congress

git clone https://github.com/unitedstates/congress.git
pip install -e congress

Update XML files on download machine

./bulk_download/download-and-sync-with-log.sh

Sync to local machine

aws s3 sync s3://hyperdemocracy/congress-scraper congress-scraper

Upsert into postgres

python congress_prep/01_populate_postgres.py