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simonw / congress-legislators-datasette

Datasette instance with data from unitedstates/congress-legislators
https://congress-legislators.datasettes.com/
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Historical legislators are missing #2

Closed simonw closed 2 years ago

simonw commented 2 years ago

https://congress-legislators.datasettes.com/legislators/legislator_terms?_sort=start shows an earliest term of 1973-03-06.

simonw commented 2 years ago

Here's why: https://github.com/simonw/congress-legislators-datasette/blob/508b5aa38f022e81c31dbd273e0a179fb72623ca/build_database.py#L20-L23