sunlightlabs/openstates — pull request #482 by poliquin (2014-09-19 01:20:54+00:00)
Title: OR: Use HTTP instead of FTP for bill lists

Current scraper uses FTP to get a list of bills. This branch switches the scraper to HTTP. I did this because I'm behind a restrictive firewall that blocks the FTP connection. This might not be worth accepting to `sunlightlabs:master`, but here are some potential benefits of merging this and switching to HTTP:

1. I will try to add historical sessions to Oregon; that code will be based on this code.
2. Code is now fewer lines.
3. Current scraper appears to miss HB 2010 from 2013 Regular Session.