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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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Thad Cochran data quality #209

Closed paultag closed 9 years ago

paultag commented 10 years ago

In the YAML, Thad is both a Rep and a Senator until 1978-10-15 for MS. Seems off, anyone know what's up there?

Wikipedia seems to think these roles didn't overlap (and I tend to agree) -- anyone know the source of those end_dates ?

nickom commented 10 years ago

According to congress.gov:

He was "elected as a Republican to the Ninety-third Congress in 1972; reelected to the Ninety-fourth and Ninety-fifth Congresses and served from January 3, 1973, until his resignation on December 26, 1978; was not a candidate for reelection to the House of Representatives, but was elected in 1978 to the United States Senate for the term commencing January 3, 1979; subsequently appointed by the Governor, December 27, 1978, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James O. Eastland for the term ending January 3, 1979; reelected in 1984, 1990, 1996, 2002, and again in 2008 for the term ending January 3, 2015; chair, Senate Republican Conference (1991-97), Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (One Hundred Eighth Congress); Committee on Appropriations (One Hundred Ninth Congress)."

paultag commented 10 years ago

I'll send a PR cleaning up his roles, I think these are just wrong

JoshData commented 10 years ago

Great.

JoshData commented 9 years ago

addressed in #210, closing