sunlightlabs/openstates — Issue #121: Some MA information being returned with extraneous newlines 
Author: paultag
Created: 2011-12-15 04:07:05+00:00
State: open
Labels: api, feature request, priority.low

When running:

for bill in bills:
print "%s %s %s" % (bill.state, bill.bill_id, bill.title)

It returned some data such as:

ma H 1943 An Act reimbursing cities and towns for special education transportation costs
ma H 1956 An Act relative to special education transportation costs
ma H 2564 An Act relative to updating funding for transportation investments
ma H 2646 An Act Relative to the Ride Service of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.

ma H 2650 An Act relative to the transportation of swimming pools

ma H 2658 An Act to authorize transportation revenues to be collected in high occupancy vehicle lanes from single passenger vehicles
ma H 2659 An Act relative to transportation finance and equity

However, `openstates/ma/bills.py:91` appears to strip the data, so perhaps it's just on the stale data side.

Worth looking into.