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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: "Richard E. Neal"
description: "U.S. House of Representatives - MA-1 — Congressional District 1"
role: "U.S. House of Representatives - MA-1"
party: "D"
level: "federal"
branch: "legislative"
state: "MA"
district: "Congressional District 1"
committees:
- name: "House Committee on Ways and Means"
role: "ranking-member"
body: "us/bodies/house/committees/ways-and-means"
- name: "Joint Committee on Taxation"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/joint/committees/taxation"
tenure:
start: "2025-01-03"
current: true
election:
next: 2026
term_length: 2
term_limit: "none"
ids:
person: "aca717f1-00aa-4112-afca-9bc4e901c128"
office: "7aa62281-2b56-486b-9793-da8e35383902"
tenure: "c19d6256-6df5-4034-aa54-7f72bb97767d"
jurisdiction: "74cd64a1-a06f-4b67-ad78-5587d629ce60"
bioguide: "N000015"
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, ma]
timestamp: "2026-06-20"
---
# Richard E. Neal
Current U.S. House of Representatives - MA-1 (Congressional District 1).
## Committees
- [House Committee on Ways and Means](/us/bodies/house/committees/ways-and-means.md) — **ranking-member**
- [Joint Committee on Taxation](/us/bodies/joint/committees/taxation.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).