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Public domain data collectors for the work of Congress, including legislation, amendments, and votes.
https://github.com/unitedstates/congress/wiki
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Should we add session start/end dates? #228

Open wilson428 opened 6 years ago

wilson428 commented 6 years ago

Published on Senate.gov back to antiquity. I'm happy to write a scraper. I just forget where the right place is to put it.

JoshData commented 6 years ago

I scraped it waaay back when. See https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators/issues/388. It's possible my file is out of date if there have been fixes on the Senate page.

It's be nice to have it in this repo, or in congress-legislators as a static file.

wilson428 commented 6 years ago

The reason I scraped it was I needed to match each term for each legislator to a session of Congress (or multiple for senators). It's a little tricky because there are cases where someone was appointed after the second session had adjourned to fill a spot. I'm not sure whether such a person is even sworn in.

tangerinemarigold commented 5 years ago

Where are the start and end dates scraped from?

JoshData commented 5 years ago

The link is at the top of this issue.