sunlightlabs/openstates — Issue #170: IN: openstates.bills returns UnicodeDecodeError
Author: ehazlett
Created: 2012-02-18 06:47:57+00:00
State: open

When trying to query the openstates.bills API, the following error is returned:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 245701: ordinal not in range(128)

Example query: `openstates.bills(state='IN', term='term:2012')`