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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: Person
title: "Wesley Bell"
description: "U.S. House of Representatives - MO-1 — Congressional District 1"
role: "U.S. House of Representatives - MO-1"
party: "D"
level: "federal"
branch: "legislative"
state: "MO"
district: "Congressional District 1"
committees:
- name: "House Committee on Armed Services"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/house/committees/armed-services"
- name: "House Committee on Armed Services - Strategic Forces"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/house/committees/armed-services/subcommittees/strategic-forces"
- name: "House Committee on Armed Services - Tactical Air and Land Forces"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/house/committees/armed-services/subcommittees/tactical-air-and-land-forces"
- name: "House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/house/committees/oversight-and-government-reform"
- name: "House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform - Federal Law Enforcement"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/house/committees/oversight-and-government-reform/subcommittees/federal-law-enforcement"
- name: "House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform - Health Care and Financial Services"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/house/committees/oversight-and-government-reform/subcommittees/health-care-and-financial-services"
tenure:
start: "2025-01-03"
current: true
election:
next: 2026
term_length: 2
term_limit: "none"
ids:
person: "4018bc7d-b76f-4747-809e-0607e103a3dd"
office: "d786e5b6-198b-42e1-9379-459fe3c8057d"
tenure: "0ad3a803-873d-4ef9-a934-410d469dcdfd"
jurisdiction: "5ed6f8c8-a7c0-41d4-bb38-67a54bb6e8cf"
bioguide: "B001324"
sources:
- field: tenure
source: "House Clerk XML 2026-06-10"
- field: jurisdiction
source: "Census 119th CD 500k"
- field: roles
source: "congress-legislators (unitedstates project)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, federal, legislative, mo]
timestamp: "2026-06-20"
---
# Wesley Bell
Current U.S. House of Representatives - MO-1 (Congressional District 1).
## Committees
- [House Committee on Armed Services](/us/bodies/house/committees/armed-services.md)
- [House Committee on Armed Services - Strategic Forces](/us/bodies/house/committees/armed-services/subcommittees/strategic-forces.md)
- [House Committee on Armed Services - Tactical Air and Land Forces](/us/bodies/house/committees/armed-services/subcommittees/tactical-air-and-land-forces.md)
- [House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform](/us/bodies/house/committees/oversight-and-government-reform.md)
- [House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform - Federal Law Enforcement](/us/bodies/house/committees/oversight-and-government-reform/subcommittees/federal-law-enforcement.md)
- [House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform - Health Care and Financial Services](/us/bodies/house/committees/oversight-and-government-reform/subcommittees/health-care-and-financial-services.md)
## Sources
- tenure: House Clerk XML 2026-06-10
- jurisdiction: Census 119th CD 500k
- roles: congress-legislators (unitedstates project)
Generated from the Atlas officeholders v2 export (2026-06-20).