Joshua Tauberer

I'd be glad to see this added too. This will be added to every term for which you have info? So a term will be something like either be "how:...

Just merged @GPHemsley's work adding "how: election|succession" to executive.yaml.

> Does that mean a representative going out can vote on the same day one comes in? Of course. In the general case, a member might resign after a vote...

It reads the YAML files at https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators/. (I don't think the XML file you are describing comes from these repos.)

We scrape several sources in that repository. I don't remember off hand what all of the URLs are. But you can scan through the scripts at https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators/tree/main/scripts to see. For...

Last time I did it (which was years ago), it wasn't really hard, but annoying to deal with CR scraping on THOMAS. If you have Subversion installed, you can get...

As far as I know, no one has tried either that or anything in the bigger picture of parsing how things change other things.

I tried recently to do this locally, to see if it's possible. My date-to-congress function is here: https://github.com/govtrack/govtrack.us-web/blob/master/us.py#L93 example calls: https://github.com/govtrack/govtrack.us-web/blob/master/person/models.py#L384 I ran into data errors though where old terms...

Yes the historical data (pre-2003-ish) originated from bioguide's search results page (where the Congress numbers are listed). Sadly I turned the Congress numbers into dates via `sessions.tsv` and then discarded...

> Josh, you say, "it's actually not possible to assign a congress to every term." I assume that is because a term is longer than a congress for senators. That's...