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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, leadership, committees, tenure, election, ids, sources, confidence, tags, timestamp
type title description role party level branch state leadership committees tenure election ids sources confidence tags timestamp
Person Richard J. Durbin U.S. Senate - IL — State of Illinois U.S. Senate - IL D federal legislative IL
role body since
Senate Minority Whip S 2025-01-03
name role body
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry member us/bodies/senate/committees/agriculture-nutrition-and-forestry
name role body
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry - Commodities, Derivatives, Risk Management, and Trade member us/bodies/senate/committees/agriculture-nutrition-and-forestry/subcommittees/commodities-derivatives-risk-management-and-trade
name role body
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry - Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, and Food Safety member us/bodies/senate/committees/agriculture-nutrition-and-forestry/subcommittees/livestock-dairy-poultry-and-food-safety
name role body
Senate Committee on Appropriations member us/bodies/senate/committees/appropriations
name role body
Senate Committee on Appropriations - Department of Defense member us/bodies/senate/committees/appropriations/subcommittees/department-of-defense
name role body
Senate Committee on Appropriations - Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies member us/bodies/senate/committees/appropriations/subcommittees/departments-of-labor-health-and-human-services-and-education-and-related-agencies
name role body
Senate Committee on Appropriations - Energy and Water Development member us/bodies/senate/committees/appropriations/subcommittees/energy-and-water-development
name role body
Senate Committee on Appropriations - Financial Services and General Government member us/bodies/senate/committees/appropriations/subcommittees/financial-services-and-general-government
name role body
Senate Committee on Appropriations - State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs member us/bodies/senate/committees/appropriations/subcommittees/state-foreign-operations-and-related-programs
name role body
Senate Committee on Appropriations - Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies member us/bodies/senate/committees/appropriations/subcommittees/transportation-housing-and-urban-development-and-related-agencies
name role body
Senate Committee on the Judiciary ranking-member us/bodies/senate/committees/the-judiciary
name role body
Senate Committee on the Judiciary - Crime and Counterterrorism ranking-member us/bodies/senate/committees/the-judiciary/subcommittees/crime-and-counterterrorism
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2025-01-03 true
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2026 6 none
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tenure Senate.gov XML 2026-06-20
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jurisdiction Derived from governor jurisdiction
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roles congress-legislators (unitedstates project)
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2026-06-20

Richard J. Durbin

Current U.S. Senate - IL (State of Illinois).

Leadership

  • Senate Minority Whip (since 2025-01-03)

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).