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Fabio d6874ca8a6 Close the institutional gap: bodies, committees, leadership
The seat data answered 'who represents this place?' but not 'who runs
this institution?' — the Speaker of the House existed only as the rep
for LA-4. This adds the missing axis of institutional power.

New Body entities (233): the U.S. House, U.S. Senate, Executive Office,
49 committees, 181 subcommittees — each with its leadership.

Federal people (532/542) enriched with bioguide IDs, leadership roles,
and committee seats, reconciled from congress-legislators by name.
Mike Johnson is now Speaker of the House, not just LA-4.

Sources ingested directly into the repo (repo-canonical): Atlas
supplied bodies/leadership/committee_memberships via congress-legislators,
committed raw in data/. build.py supersedes convert_officeholders.py and
reads all four inputs in one deterministic pass (byte-identical on rerun).

The 10 unenriched federal records are a finding, not a bug: vacancies,
the President, and ~5 seats where Atlas's roster disagrees with the
authoritative current roster — model-vs-reality discrepancies to surface.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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---
type: Person
title: "Christopher A. Coons"
description: "U.S. Senate - DE — State of Delaware"
role: "U.S. Senate - DE"
party: "D"
level: "federal"
branch: "legislative"
state: "DE"
committees:
- name: "Senate Committee on Appropriations"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/appropriations"
- name: "Senate Committee on Appropriations - Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/appropriations/subcommittees/commerce-justice-science-and-related-agencies"
- name: "Senate Committee on Appropriations - Department of Defense"
role: "ranking-member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/appropriations/subcommittees/department-of-defense"
- name: "Senate Committee on Appropriations - Energy and Water Development"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/appropriations/subcommittees/energy-and-water-development"
- name: "Senate Committee on Appropriations - Financial Services and General Government"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/appropriations/subcommittees/financial-services-and-general-government"
- name: "Senate Committee on Appropriations - State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/appropriations/subcommittees/state-foreign-operations-and-related-programs"
- name: "Senate Committee on Appropriations - Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/appropriations/subcommittees/transportation-housing-and-urban-development-and-related-agencies"
- name: "Senate Committee on Foreign Relations"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/foreign-relations"
- name: "Senate Committee on Foreign Relations - Africa and Global Health Policy"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/foreign-relations/subcommittees/africa-and-global-health-policy"
- name: "Senate Committee on Foreign Relations - East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy"
role: "ranking-member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/foreign-relations/subcommittees/east-asia-the-pacific-and-international-cybersecurity-policy"
- name: "Senate Committee on Foreign Relations - Multilateral International Development, Multilateral Institutions, and International Economic, Energy, and Environmental Policy"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/foreign-relations/subcommittees/multilateral-international-development-multilateral-institutions-and-international-economic-energy-and-environmental-policy"
- name: "Senate Committee on Foreign Relations - State Department and USAID Management, International Operations, and Bilateral International Development"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/foreign-relations/subcommittees/state-department-and-usaid-management-international-operations-and-bilateral-international-development"
- name: "Senate Select Committee on Ethics"
role: "vice-chair"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/senate-select-committee-on-ethics"
- name: "Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/small-business-and-entrepreneurship"
- name: "Senate Committee on the Judiciary"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/the-judiciary"
- name: "Senate Committee on the Judiciary - Border Security and Immigration"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/the-judiciary/subcommittees/border-security-and-immigration"
- name: "Senate Committee on the Judiciary - Crime and Counterterrorism"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/the-judiciary/subcommittees/crime-and-counterterrorism"
- name: "Senate Committee on the Judiciary - Intellectual Property"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/the-judiciary/subcommittees/intellectual-property"
- name: "Senate Committee on the Judiciary - Privacy, Technology, and the Law"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/the-judiciary/subcommittees/privacy-technology-and-the-law"
tenure:
start: "2025-01-03"
current: true
election:
next: 2026
term_length: 6
term_limit: "none"
ids:
person: "455e6bb8-5cf8-4c57-9b43-445b547f5e9b"
office: "0dca372c-e4c4-4833-a872-68368d086581"
tenure: "5e8d5227-0d6b-44cf-9285-ab5812e2bf1a"
jurisdiction: "d65452bc-9169-4acc-a0ec-69a0bfdba8f1"
bioguide: "C001088"
sources:
- field: tenure
source: "Senate.gov XML 2026-06-20"
- field: jurisdiction
source: "Derived from governor jurisdiction"
- field: roles
source: "congress-legislators (unitedstates project)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, federal, legislative, de]
timestamp: "2026-06-20"
---
# Christopher A. Coons
Current U.S. Senate - DE (State of Delaware).
## Committees
- [Senate Committee on Appropriations](/us/bodies/senate/committees/appropriations.md)
- [Senate Committee on Appropriations - Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies](/us/bodies/senate/committees/appropriations/subcommittees/commerce-justice-science-and-related-agencies.md)
- [Senate Committee on Appropriations - Department of Defense](/us/bodies/senate/committees/appropriations/subcommittees/department-of-defense.md) — **ranking-member**
- [Senate Committee on Appropriations - Energy and Water Development](/us/bodies/senate/committees/appropriations/subcommittees/energy-and-water-development.md)
- [Senate Committee on Appropriations - Financial Services and General Government](/us/bodies/senate/committees/appropriations/subcommittees/financial-services-and-general-government.md)
- [Senate Committee on Appropriations - State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs](/us/bodies/senate/committees/appropriations/subcommittees/state-foreign-operations-and-related-programs.md)
- [Senate Committee on Appropriations - Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies](/us/bodies/senate/committees/appropriations/subcommittees/transportation-housing-and-urban-development-and-related-agencies.md)
- [Senate Committee on Foreign Relations](/us/bodies/senate/committees/foreign-relations.md)
- [Senate Committee on Foreign Relations - Africa and Global Health Policy](/us/bodies/senate/committees/foreign-relations/subcommittees/africa-and-global-health-policy.md)
- [Senate Committee on Foreign Relations - East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy](/us/bodies/senate/committees/foreign-relations/subcommittees/east-asia-the-pacific-and-international-cybersecurity-policy.md) — **ranking-member**
- [Senate Committee on Foreign Relations - Multilateral International Development, Multilateral Institutions, and International Economic, Energy, and Environmental Policy](/us/bodies/senate/committees/foreign-relations/subcommittees/multilateral-international-development-multilateral-institutions-and-international-economic-energy-and-environmental-policy.md)
- [Senate Committee on Foreign Relations - State Department and USAID Management, International Operations, and Bilateral International Development](/us/bodies/senate/committees/foreign-relations/subcommittees/state-department-and-usaid-management-international-operations-and-bilateral-international-development.md)
- [Senate Select Committee on Ethics](/us/bodies/senate/committees/senate-select-committee-on-ethics.md) — **vice-chair**
- [Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship](/us/bodies/senate/committees/small-business-and-entrepreneurship.md)
- [Senate Committee on the Judiciary](/us/bodies/senate/committees/the-judiciary.md)
- [Senate Committee on the Judiciary - Border Security and Immigration](/us/bodies/senate/committees/the-judiciary/subcommittees/border-security-and-immigration.md)
- [Senate Committee on the Judiciary - Crime and Counterterrorism](/us/bodies/senate/committees/the-judiciary/subcommittees/crime-and-counterterrorism.md)
- [Senate Committee on the Judiciary - Intellectual Property](/us/bodies/senate/committees/the-judiciary/subcommittees/intellectual-property.md)
- [Senate Committee on the Judiciary - Privacy, Technology, and the Law](/us/bodies/senate/committees/the-judiciary/subcommittees/privacy-technology-and-the-law.md)
## Sources
- tenure: Senate.gov XML 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: Derived from governor jurisdiction
- roles: congress-legislators (unitedstates project)
Generated from the Atlas officeholders v2 export (2026-06-20).