Support Paper Filing Records

[dwillis]

FEC has machine-readable records for paper filings here: ftp://ftp.fec.gov/FEC/paper/

[jsfenfen]

Now that they've (sorta) released the .xls version spec files, would be great to generate the relevant sources dir--or maybe paper_sources? However you want to do it, if there's a place it exists I'd be happy to help on this. I can't remember if fech can do this automatically or not...

[jsfenfen]

I'm starting to build these. Don't have a great pipeline, as this really requires matching the same variables to the electronic versions of the same file; in some cases the variables do seem different.

First ones are here: https://github.com/jsfenfen/paper_fec/tree/master/parsing/paper_sources

Thus far the versions seem to be pretty consistent.

[dwillis]

Cool, thanks! If it's ok, I'll grab these for Fech and build off that.

[jsfenfen]

Absolutely, go for it.

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[saizai]

Cross-note: 18F/FEC#14

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