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A working parser for the US Code's hierarchy, and a work-in-progress parser for the full content.
We did this successfully on [inspectors-general](https://github.com/unitedstates/inspectors-general) and [congress-legislators](https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators), may as well do it here, the next time we do a burst of effort.
The readme instructs the user to run download/pdf.sh to get all of the pdfs. From what grep and I can tell this is the only time the pdfs are used/referenced....
Using this issue to record notes/speed bumps in installing and running on OSX. This could become a pull request to the README/docs. - Requires install of virtualenv: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv - Depends...
I created a parser that converts the US Code xml to a sqlite database: [https://github.com/cliveleehere/uscxmlparsepub](https://github.com/cliveleehere/uscxmlparsepub) I had used it in my android app before, but i decided to open source...