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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>
2026-07-03 20:51:07 -04:00

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type, title, description, role, party, level, branch, state, committees, tenure, election, ids, sources, confidence, tags, timestamp
type title description role party level branch state committees tenure election ids sources confidence tags timestamp
Person Sheldon Whitehouse U.S. Senate - RI — State of Rhode Island U.S. Senate - RI D federal legislative RI
name role body
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe member us/bodies/joint/committees/commission-on-security-and-cooperation-in-europe
name role body
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works ranking-member us/bodies/senate/committees/environment-and-public-works
name role body
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works - Chemical Safety, Waste Management, Environmental Justice, and Regulatory Oversight ex-officio us/bodies/senate/committees/environment-and-public-works/subcommittees/chemical-safety-waste-management-environmental-justice-and-regulatory-oversight
name role body
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works - Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Innovation and Safety ex-officio us/bodies/senate/committees/environment-and-public-works/subcommittees/clean-air-climate-and-nuclear-innovation-and-safety
name role body
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works - Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water ex-officio us/bodies/senate/committees/environment-and-public-works/subcommittees/fisheries-wildlife-and-water
name role body
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works - Transportation and Infrastructure ex-officio us/bodies/senate/committees/environment-and-public-works/subcommittees/transportation-and-infrastructure
name role body
Senate Committee on Finance member us/bodies/senate/committees/finance
name role body
Senate Committee on Finance - Health Care member us/bodies/senate/committees/finance/subcommittees/health-care
name role body
Senate Committee on Finance - International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness member us/bodies/senate/committees/finance/subcommittees/international-trade-customs-and-global-competitiveness
name role body
Senate Committee on Finance - Taxation and IRS Oversight member us/bodies/senate/committees/finance/subcommittees/taxation-and-irs-oversight
name role body
Senate Committee on the Budget member us/bodies/senate/committees/the-budget
name role body
Senate Committee on the Judiciary member us/bodies/senate/committees/the-judiciary
name role body
Senate Committee on the Judiciary - Border Security and Immigration member us/bodies/senate/committees/the-judiciary/subcommittees/border-security-and-immigration
name role body
Senate Committee on the Judiciary - Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights ranking-member us/bodies/senate/committees/the-judiciary/subcommittees/federal-courts-oversight-agency-action-and-federal-rights
name role body
Senate Committee on the Judiciary - Intellectual Property member us/bodies/senate/committees/the-judiciary/subcommittees/intellectual-property
name role body
Senate Committee on the Judiciary - the Constitution member us/bodies/senate/committees/the-judiciary/subcommittees/the-constitution
name role body
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control chair us/bodies/senate/committees/united-states-senate-caucus-on-international-narcotics-control
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2025-01-03 true
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tenure Senate.gov XML 2026-06-20
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roles congress-legislators (unitedstates project)
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2026-06-20

Sheldon Whitehouse

Current U.S. Senate - RI (State of Rhode Island).

Committees

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).