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// /bill.json?bill_id=hr3590-111&apikey=[yourApikey]&sections=last_action.type,sponsor.last_name
{bill: {
    last_action: {
        type: "enacted"
    },
    sponsor: {
        last_name: "Rangel"
    }
}}

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{"response":
    {"legislator":
        {"district":"8",
         "title":"Rep",
         "eventful_id":"P0-001-000016548-5",
         "in_office":true,
         "state":"CA",
         "crp_id":"N00007360",
         "official_rss":"",
         "party":"D",

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#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

'''
    This script was used to convert the 2009 Q3 House Disbursement PDF into detail and summary CSV files.
        Source PDF: http://disbursements.house.gov/
        Resulting Data: http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/projects/2009/expenditures/

    It was originally authored by Luke Rosiak with improvements by James Turk for Sunlight Labs and is released into the public domain.

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from django.contrib.gis.geos import Point
from django.contrib.gis.measure import D
from django.contrib.humanize.templatetags.humanize import intcomma
from layar import POI, LayarView
from recovery.models import AwardSite

class RecoveryLayarView(LayarView):
    def get_recoverygov_queryset(self, latitude, longitude, radius,
                                 search_query, slider_value, **kwargs):
        qs = AwardSite.objects.filter(location__distance_lt=(Point(longitude, latitude), 

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### Taken from http://blog.pothoven.net/2008/09/campfire-activity-notifier-for-gnome.html
### Posted here in case that site disappears, and so I can find it more easily

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# == Synopsis
#      Program to monitor a campfire chat room
#      Modified from code provided at: http://www.snailbyte.com/2007/09/13/campfire-activity-notifier-for-kde/
#
# == Usage

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# C implementation of Levenshtein text distance algorithm, uses RubyInline to call from within Ruby
# Wildly faster than the Text gem's Text::Levenshtein
# Example:

# l = Levenshtein.new
# l.distance 'hello', ' hello'
# => 1

# Taken from http://www.benallfree.com/2008/10/05/finding-duplicate-text-with-ruby/

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Rep. Larry Kissell (D-NC),Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC),0.511210762332
Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC),Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC),0.543241843604
Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC),Rep. Mike McIntyre (D-NC),0.911302584896
Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC),Rep. Brad Miller (D-NC),0.380952380952
Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-NC),Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC),0.575697211155
Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC),Rep. Mike McIntyre (D-NC),0.470734126984
Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC),Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC),0.800102511533
Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC),Rep. Heath Shuler (D-NC),0.850261780105
Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-NC),Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC),0.393017456359
Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-NC),Rep. Heath Shuler (D-NC),0.875062468766