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Eshaan Patel and Donato Onorato are looking to hire 1 research assistant to work for $23/hr. for 5-10 hours per week through the end of the semester starting immediately on a project that aims to construct a novel database that links historical lobbying records to congressional bills and their legislative histories to understand the nature of firm lobbying.
The RA task involves scraping data from the ProQuest Congressional database that contains information on congressional bills and their histories. Relatedly, the research assistant will need to extract the bill text from the collected PDFs. The methodology used is up to the RA, but qualified applicants should have skills in scraping websites with programming languages like Python or R and familiarity with OCR tools like Textract.
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