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Editing the database

adamboche edited this page Sep 11, 2018 · 2 revisions

Updating biographical info with new data from the Bioguide

To update any of these fields -- biography, born, died, bioname -- automatically with new information from the Bioguide: Install the voteview_ingestion project, and run vvcli.

cd /usr/scripts/voteview_ingestion/
venv/bin/vvcli update-bios # Bioguide IDs, such as A12345 B34567. Space-separated.