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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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Update URL for LOC Thomas in Readme #906

Open spswanz opened 9 months ago

spswanz commented 9 months ago

The Library of Congress's THOMAS website (http://thomas.loc.gov/) has been retired since 2012 and the redirects no longer work. The data is now at Congress.gov

https://www.congress.gov/help/faq#thomasretirement

JoshData commented 9 months ago

I think you're referring to the documentation for the thomas_id field. Those numeric ids aren't on Congress.gov, so it wouldn't be right to update the URL We should just mention that it's obsolete. It remains in our data for historical purposes.