We are currently in the first phase of the project, with the goal of creating scrapers and flat data files for each of the fifty States
Major goals and phases
1. Collect URLs of State Legislature and Legislative Information Pages
2. Grab legislators and legislation
1. Build scrapers and obtain data files for legislation in each of the fifty states
2. create sponsor relationship between legislators and legislation
3. Grab votes
1. Build scrapers and obtain data files for legislator votes on legislation
2. create voting relationship between legislators and legislation
4. Build tools on top of data