Gordon P. Hemsley
Gordon P. Hemsley
Yeah, I suppose there are many issues intertwined and easily conflated here. Without controversy, I think we can add a reason for the term ending with possible values [ "C",...
OK, I created #17 for mid-term changes and #18 for dealing with Congress numbers. Also, I realized it might be more appropriate to use "E" to indicate that a term...
I think this has been superseded by later work and/or issues and can probably be closed?
Yeah, the conversion part should be easy and rather straightforward. But first we should sort out what the appropriate names are. I was under the impression that the party field...
Alright, I'll let you two decide how to handle the party switching issue. Though I should note: sometimes mid-term party switching changes party control in Congress, as it did in...
I was thinking about this some more, and I think that the benefits of having a separate field would outweigh the costs in the long-term (which doesn't necessarily have to...
Not realizing you made that comment, I began the argument about when to split terms in #15.
The committee files use a different format than the legislators/executive files. See further down in the README for their format.
What's the difficulty? Can't you just do 60% of the total number of people voting? "In the case of a cloture vote, the key is the number of Senators voting...
Oh, unless you mean the difficulty is in determining whether there are vacancies? Don't we have that information?