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Members of the United States Congress, 1789-Present, in YAML/JSON/CSV, as well as committees, presidents, and vice presidents.
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Switch Senate committee membership source to new XML file #20

Closed konklone closed 11 years ago

konklone commented 11 years ago

This file has it all, including Ranking and Chair notations: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS_MEMBER/cvc_member_data.xml

I'll tackle this promptly, since Senate committee assignments are beginning to be announced.

dwillis commented 11 years ago

Excellent, thanks Eric. I'm making my way through the House committee assignments and should have those in the NYT Congress API by the end of the week or early next week.

konklone commented 11 years ago

Very cool. What source are you using for your House committee and membership info?

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Derek Willis notifications@github.comwrote:

Excellent, thanks Eric. I'm making my way through the House committee assignments and should have those in the NYT Congress API by the end of the week or early next week.

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dwillis commented 11 years ago

The actual House resolutions listing assignments, unfortunately. Dems did full rosters on Jan. 3, GOP did committee chairs that day and full rosters the next. That's how I also detect committee changes, by scraping the Record's daily digest for particular phrases (although I guess I should be using Scout now!).

JoshData commented 11 years ago

The XML file (not new, but has committee IDs as of November) doesn't have:

Which is why I left the scraper using the committee-by-committee XML (e.g. http://www.senate.gov/general/committee_membership/committee_memberships_SSEV.xml)

konklone commented 11 years ago

That makes sense. Maybe I'll just use that XML file for the Junior/Senior stuff, then. So fragmented...

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Joshua Tauberer notifications@github.comwrote:

The XML file (not new, but has committee IDs as of November) doesn't have:

  • The list of subcommittees and subcommittee membership.
  • An implied rank of each member on each (sub)committee based on the order of the names.

Which is why I left the scraper using the committee-by-committee XML (e.g. http://www.senate.gov/general/committee_membership/committee_memberships_SSEV.xml)

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JoshData commented 11 years ago

Closing issue. Junior/senior status is issue #13, so there's nothing left to pull from this file right now.