Aaron Bycoffe

The end dates appear to be fine. The issue is mostly with start dates, for terms when there was a special session before the first regular session. [sessions.tsv](https://govtrack.us/data/us/sessions.tsv) does include...

OK, great. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything. I'm happy to handle the changes (unless you'd prefer to).

I think to faithfully include ICPSR IDs in the current format of the `legislators-*.yaml` files, they would have to be listed with each term and, when applicable, each party affiliation...

If some have multiple values, should it always be a list of numbers, even if there's just one item in the list in most cases? That's how the `fec` field...

ICPSR codebooks do define the ID as being five digits, though both Charles Stewart and Voteview list them without leading zeros. If we were to store them as strings, would...

Here's a script for getting birth dates from Wikidata (and the resulting data), in case we want to use that to help check for errors: https://gist.github.com/bycoffe/3f19b94a35785fd766a29b7454f38018 (This is the script...

I've been fixing dates in the historical data (see #385 and #386). I'll continue chipping away at it.

Should be fixed.

That's a good point. The Senate has these two PDFs on its site, one of which has [Senate special sessions](http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/SpecialSessions.pdf) and one of which has [special sessions of both chambers](http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/ExtraSessions.pdf)....

As far as I can tell there are no official records of swearing-in dates for the older sessions. The Senate does have a list of "start of service" dates, but...