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Fabio 1beeaab2db Graph: national county↔district↔legislator authority layer
The first edges in the repo. Every US county now links to the districts it
sits in, weighted by area overlap, and every legislator links to the district
they represent — county → district → representative, traversable.

Data (PostGIS, no Atlas dependency — computed directly from geometry):
- data/county_district_edges.jsonl — 16,328 weighted edges. area_weight =
  ST_Area(ST_Intersection(county, district))/ST_Area(county) over ST_MakeValid
  Census TIGER 2024 geometries, overlaps <0.5% dropped. Uses area-intersection,
  NOT centroid-in-polygon, so urban districts that carve through counties
  (e.g. GA CD-5 / Atlanta across Clayton+DeKalb+Fulton) are captured, not
  silently dropped. Per-county weights sum to ~1.0 per district type.

build.py:
- ~6,896 new district nodes: 435 CD (ACS demographics where available; sparse
  for the 8 states missing from acs_cd) + 4,927 state-house + 1,897 state-senate
  (geometry-only). GEOID/number-keyed, stable.
- county index.md gains a `districts:` block (frontmatter) + a ## Districts
  section (body links, so link-integrity checks them).
- legislators + US House members gain `represents:` pointing at their district
  node; edge stored once on the person, inverse left to the view.
- schemas/jurisdiction: classification enum + chamber/districts fields.

Honest gaps (logged, not hidden): ID + NH have no state-house geometry, so
their house districts get nodes (represents resolves) but no county edges;
CD nodes for acs_cd-missing states are demographically sparse.

Deterministic (byte-identical rebuild); validate.py passes 26,617 records,
link-integrity clean (every district/represents link resolves).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-04 22:28:08 -04:00

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type, title, description, role, party, level, branch, state, district, represents, committees, tenure, election, ids, sources, confidence, tags, timestamp
type title description role party level branch state district represents committees tenure election ids sources confidence tags timestamp
Person Bill Foster U.S. House of Representatives - IL-11 — Congressional District 11 U.S. House of Representatives - IL-11 D federal legislative IL Congressional District 11 us/states/il/districts/11
name role body
House Committee on Financial Services member us/bodies/house/committees/financial-services
name role body
House Committee on Financial Services - Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence member us/bodies/house/committees/financial-services/subcommittees/digital-assets-financial-technology-and-artificial-intelligence
name role body
House Committee on Financial Services - Financial Institutions ranking-member us/bodies/house/committees/financial-services/subcommittees/financial-institutions
name role body
House Committee on Financial Services - National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions member us/bodies/house/committees/financial-services/subcommittees/national-security-illicit-finance-and-international-financial-institutions
name role body
House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology member us/bodies/house/committees/science-space-and-technology
start current
2025-01-03 true
next term_length term_limit
2026 2 none
person office tenure jurisdiction bioguide
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field source
tenure House Clerk XML 2026-06-10
field source
jurisdiction Census 119th CD 500k
field source
roles congress-legislators (unitedstates project)
official
officeholder
federal
legislative
il
2026-07-04

Bill Foster

Current U.S. House of Representatives - IL-11 (Congressional District 11).

Represents Congressional District 11.

Committees

Sources

  • tenure: House Clerk XML 2026-06-10
  • jurisdiction: Census 119th CD 500k
  • roles: congress-legislators (unitedstates project)

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).