This repository attempts to parse the December 21, 2020 COVID relief bill, looking for references to dollar amounts spent and saving them to html files. Currently there are 2 html files, one containing sections of text that reference all dollar amounts (referenced-dollars.html), and another which references specific dollar amounts that are being given to outside-countries (referenced-countries.html).
The standalone script can be found in script.py and can be run via python3 script.py
This repository is the focus of a blog post I wrote on https://joshterrill.com called "Where does all the money go?"
A PDF hosted version of the original text can be found on the house website: https://rules.house.gov/sites/democrats.rules.house.gov/files/BILLS-116HR133SA-RCP-116-68.pdf
I found a mirror of the original PDF that had an option to download it as a .txt file here: https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20433222-bills-116hr133sa-rcp-116-68 - this is the file that was used and can be found in this repo called bills-116hr133sa-rcp-116-68.txt.
If you come up with any other interesting things to extract/parse from this text, or would like to improve upon it, pull requests are welcome.