Joshua Tauberer

Fantastic. LGTM. I think it would be great if we eventually had an annotation on all end dates that aren't because their term was up.

You need to break this into two separate issues: labeling the reason for the end of a term (very useful), and changing the nature of what we call a term...

There may also be expulsions, and possibly other reasons hard to categorize. Our style so far is to use short words as codes like sen and rep, so we can...

Here's historical data on House term end reasons and special elections by Greg Giroux: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmKROOtieHjDdGVGeThlNVVjcUdtbnE2MGZBQVFYRUE&usp=drive_web#gid=0 (h/t @dwillis)

Hey, thanks. These problems date back to when I back-filled my data many years ago. I knew which congresses the Members served in but when they came in via an...

Some updates to term dates from the bioguide was made in #175, but because of bioguide's confusing use of election dates they may still not be quite right.

I run it about every six hours to get updates, so it's designed to be efficient for that use case.

This probably overlaps with #475. While #475 has conflicts and can't be merged in its current form, it does add metadata about the reason for the term end, which is...

I merged master into the branch and reverted two errors, but there are still failures that need to be resolved: ``` legislators-historical.yaml:S000682:terms[0](1847-12-06 to 1847-03-03): Term has end before start. legislators-historical.yaml:W000285:terms[0](1855-12-03...

Yep, just inherited it from not-entirely-sensible stuff I programmed many years ago. Let's get rid of type=calendar completely.