{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/unitedstates/congress/issues/161","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/unitedstates/congress/issues/161/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/unitedstates/congress/issues/161/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/unitedstates/congress/issues/161/events","html_url":"https://github.com/unitedstates/congress/issues/161","id":64340906,"number":161,"title":"Invalid JSON data in Historical Vote","user":{"login":"vadvv","id":840887,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/840887?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/vadvv","html_url":"https://github.com/vadvv","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vadvv/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vadvv/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vadvv/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vadvv/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vadvv/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vadvv/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vadvv/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vadvv/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vadvv/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-03-25T18:29:16Z","updated_at":"2015-03-25T20:18:14Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Hi,\r\nI looked for this in previous posts and didn't find anything on it, but I apologize in advance if this was already discussed (in which case, I'd appreciate if someone could point me to the thread).\r\n\r\nI found invalid JSON data when parsing votes for historical purposes. I found a vote with the body \"VP\" in it instead of the standard expected object. This was in a few votes in 106th and the 107th Congress (so far). I think it is in instances where the Vice President casts the tie-breaking vote in the US Senate.\r\n\r\nAn example is in these files (links from GovTrack):\r\nhttps://www.govtrack.us/data/congress/106/votes/1999/s134/data.json\r\nhttps://www.govtrack.us/data/congress/107/votes/2001/s65/data.json\r\nhttps://www.govtrack.us/data/congress/107/votes/2001/s79/data.json\r\nhttps://www.govtrack.us/data/congress/107/votes/2002/s119/data.json\r\n\r\nI was wondering if this could perhaps be handled more gracefully, but putting in the VP's infor like the other legislators' information."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/unitedstates/congress/issues/comments/86201233","html_url":"https://github.com/unitedstates/congress/issues/161#issuecomment-86201233","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/unitedstates/congress/issues/161","id":86201233,"user":{"login":"JoshData","id":445875,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/445875?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/JoshData","html_url":"https://github.com/JoshData","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JoshData/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JoshData/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JoshData/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JoshData/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JoshData/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JoshData/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JoshData/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JoshData/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JoshData/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-03-25T20:18:14Z","updated_at":"2015-03-25T20:18:14Z","body":"At the least we should get it documented. https://github.com/unitedstates/congress/wiki/votes\r\n\r\nGenerally I don't like change. It's not invalid --- just ugly. If we change it, everyone that uses this data has to go update their code (and I am lazy!)."}}