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Longworth House vs. Cannon House #6

Open genoth opened 7 years ago

genoth commented 7 years ago

Hi! I'm working with @gmassanek on cleaning up the district addresses. As we've gone through the freshman members of Congress, we've noticed that for several, Line 1 of the DC office differs from Line 1 as shown on the legislator's website- the only difference being that Longworth House is shown instead of Cannon House, or vice versa (examples: Salud Carbajal, Andy Biggs, Jimmy Panetta, Ro Khanna).

Do you think it would be best for me to just fix these, or is there some other reason this might be happening on more addresses? Thanks, let us know how we can help!

jlgoldman commented 7 years ago

Thanks for bringing this up! Most likely those are all freshman reps who have moved offices. The authoritative source for DC office locations is http://clerk.house.gov/xml/lists/MemberData.xml. Can you confirm that the XML feed has the new office building for all of these? If so feel free to just fix them here. You or I could also run a script that compares the XML feed against all entries to look for others who have moved since January.

gmassanek commented 7 years ago

Hadn't seen that XML feed. That's great!

Just checked Carbajal and the office listed is CHOB, so they must have moved offices. I can script an audit.