Label delegates and resident comissioners separately about congress-legislators HOT 5 CLOSED

I certainly don't care that much whether the field's name is 'title' or 'type'. :) I don't believe we'd need to distinguish a hypothetical Senate Delegate or House Delegate in only this field, either. The type would be the title they have, and the chamber would serve to distinguish them.

from congress-legislators.

I was merely trying to assert that we don't need to create a new field when the existing field will already do the job.

I stand by my original proposal:

chamber: H
type: rep

chamber: H
type: del

chamber: H
type: (res)com

chamber: S
type: sen

chamber: S
type: del

(Changing "H" to "house" and "S" to "Senate", if you so desire.)

from congress-legislators.

Yep! That looks good. I do desire the "house" and "senate", obviously not a
big deal.

For resident commissioners, I always thought they used "Com." as their
title, but Pierluisi himself uses "Res." in this press release:
http://pierluisi.house.gov/english/news/2010/12.11.12%20Op-Ed%20in%20Roll%20Call.html

Anybody know which it should be?

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Gordon P. Hemsley
[email protected]:

I was merely trying to assert that we don't need to create a new field
when the existing field will already do the job.

I stand by my original proposal:

chamber: H
type: rep

chamber: H
type: del

chamber: H
type: (res)com

chamber: S
type: sen

chamber: S
type: del

(Changing "H" to "house" and "S" to "Senate", if you so desire.)

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from congress-legislators.

Well, this is the distinction I was trying to make between type and title: The answer to that question doesn't really matter right now (or, rather, for this issue), as this is merely notation that we will be using to distinguish the positions, which says nothing about what title should be displayed alongside their name.

That's why I'd suggested "rescom" earlier.

from congress-legislators.

Let's make handling this a requirement of solving #26.

from congress-legislators.