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It would be helpful to have more fine-grain dates for the start and end of a member's term for reasons such as:
Special elections
Death
Expulsion
Another helpful detail would be the start and end reason. If a member's term was ended early, we could fetch the official reason for that. (This particular information can already be fetched from bioguide.congress.gov, but it may be a good idea to include this as part of Congress.gov's dataset).
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Add finer Start and End dates & reasons for Congressman terms
Finer Start and End dates & reasons for Congressman terms
May 5, 2024
Hi there,
The
/member/{bioguideId}
endpoint returns terms in the format of:It would be helpful to have more fine-grain dates for the start and end of a member's term for reasons such as:
Another helpful detail would be the start and end reason. If a member's term was ended early, we could fetch the official reason for that. (This particular information can already be fetched from
bioguide.congress.gov
, but it may be a good idea to include this as part of Congress.gov's dataset).The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: