Joshua Tauberer

If I recall, it's still open. If the committees-current file is missing Senate committee mailing addresses and phone numbers, it's open.

Correct! For things like this we try to automate it with a script that scrapes some Senate website (and commit both the script & the changes). But if you want...

This PR conflicts with your previous one (I think that's the cause of the conflict). Can you re-do?

I wonder if we shouldn't trust my session data. According to http://content.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,2009480,00.html, it may be that only one chamber or the other was in session during a special session, and...

I think we're also missing some who were elected to fill a vacancy after the end of the last session. I don't mind missing people who didn't actually serve, but...

> For House terms, use the first date of the House's first special session (if it was before the first regular session). For Senate terms, use the senator's start date...

Should we just merge this and then come back to cases where only one chamber was in session during the special session in a later issue/PR?

Ok that's fine. If you're still working on it, no hurry.

There is a subtle legal difference, in so far as sometimes it's a yea/nay vote and sometimes it's an aye/no vote, but the difference has no practical meaning. I would...

Right but the timezone is not present upstream, so there's nothing we can do. I'll let our House contact know about this as an issue, though I don't expect it...