Label delegates and resident comissioners separately

[GPHemsley]

Delegates and Resident Commissioners are non-voting members of the House of Representatives, which distinguishes them from Representatives. In addition, a Resident Commissioner is distinguished from a Delegate in that the former elected to a four-year term versus the two-year term of the latter.

If the Senate ever winds up adding delegates, there would then be a further distinction between House Delegates and Senate Delegates.

I am of the opinion that the combination of the "chamber" and "type" fields, as detailed in #26, is enough to distinguish all of these. I don't think that it is necessary to transition away from the "type" field in favor of another field, like "title".

[konklone]

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.

[GPHemsley]

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.)

[konklone]

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
notifications@github.comwrote:

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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[GPHemsley]

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.

[konklone]

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