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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: "Tom Cotton"
description: "U.S. Senate - AR — State of Arkansas"
role: "U.S. Senate - AR"
party: "R"
level: "federal"
branch: "legislative"
state: "AR"
leadership:
- role: "Senate Republican Conference Chair"
body: "S"
since: "2025-01-03"
committees:
- name: "Joint Economic Committee"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/joint/committees/joint-economic-committee"
- name: "Senate Committee on Armed Services"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/armed-services"
- name: "Senate Committee on Armed Services - Airland"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/armed-services/subcommittees/airland"
- name: "Senate Committee on Armed Services - Cybersecurity"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/armed-services/subcommittees/cybersecurity"
- name: "Senate Committee on Armed Services - Emerging Threats and Capabilities"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/armed-services/subcommittees/emerging-threats-and-capabilities"
- name: "Senate Committee on Armed Services - Strategic Forces"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/armed-services/subcommittees/strategic-forces"
- name: "Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/energy-and-natural-resources"
- name: "Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - Energy"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/energy-and-natural-resources/subcommittees/energy"
- name: "Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - Public Lands, Forests, and Mining"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/energy-and-natural-resources/subcommittees/public-lands-forests-and-mining"
- name: "Senate Select Committee on Intelligence"
role: "chair"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/senate-select-committee-on-intelligence"
tenure:
start: "2025-01-03"
current: true
election:
next: 2026
term_length: 6
term_limit: "none"
ids:
person: "2a0a844a-7a9a-4d03-ab62-640da7f9be56"
office: "db7b3ac4-4069-4bfb-89ca-bea40cd4b381"
tenure: "a626a701-5fa4-4e62-b8c6-afed2a6ae180"
jurisdiction: "67931937-7573-4047-bfe8-d660416c6f21"
bioguide: "C001095"
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, ar]
timestamp: "2026-06-20"
---
# Tom Cotton
Current U.S. Senate - AR (State of Arkansas).
## Leadership
- Senate Republican Conference Chair (since 2025-01-03)
## Committees
- [Joint Economic Committee](/us/bodies/joint/committees/joint-economic-committee.md)
- [Senate Committee on Armed Services](/us/bodies/senate/committees/armed-services.md)
- [Senate Committee on Armed Services - Airland](/us/bodies/senate/committees/armed-services/subcommittees/airland.md)
- [Senate Committee on Armed Services - Cybersecurity](/us/bodies/senate/committees/armed-services/subcommittees/cybersecurity.md)
- [Senate Committee on Armed Services - Emerging Threats and Capabilities](/us/bodies/senate/committees/armed-services/subcommittees/emerging-threats-and-capabilities.md)
- [Senate Committee on Armed Services - Strategic Forces](/us/bodies/senate/committees/armed-services/subcommittees/strategic-forces.md)
- [Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources](/us/bodies/senate/committees/energy-and-natural-resources.md)
- [Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - Energy](/us/bodies/senate/committees/energy-and-natural-resources/subcommittees/energy.md)
- [Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - Public Lands, Forests, and Mining](/us/bodies/senate/committees/energy-and-natural-resources/subcommittees/public-lands-forests-and-mining.md)
- [Senate Select Committee on Intelligence](/us/bodies/senate/committees/senate-select-committee-on-intelligence.md) — **chair**
## 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).