Goal; Compute the complexity of each bill in congress. As a first crack, measure the number of references to laws. Usually, such references are particularly obscure. There is not an easily-recognizable grammar to recognize legal citations inline, but a few common words will suffice for startsers; "United States Code", "Federal Register", U.S.C., "Public Law", "Private Law"
NYT Developers Hack Day 2013-11-16
To use this you need a login.py file that looks like this:
keys = {
'nyt_article_search': '***',
'nyt_campaign_finance': '***',
'nyt_congress': '***',
'sunlight': '***',
}
You can get a key from developer.nytimes.com/register and http://sunlightfoundation.com/api/.