house support offices missing

[timball]

there currently doesn't exist a place to fit the following house support offices (and their websites which is what i care about for the next day or two) . proposal is to create another file like house-support-offices.yaml . Oh and also a complimentary senate-support-offices.yaml .

example of entities that should be listed in file:

• Clerk of the House
• Chief Administrative Officer
• Sergeant at Arms
• Chaplain
• Inspector General
• Historian
• Law Revision Counsel
• Legislative Counsel
• Office of Congressional Ethics
• Office of the General Counsel
• Office of Interparliamentary Affairs
• Parliamentarian
• Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group
• senate DPC and SRC

--timball

[konklone]

This data is going to be a lot more static than the legislator/committee data. If it's useful, then I think this is worth capturing, and worth capturing here, assuming there's some sort of support system for it. Is this going to be used somewhere that will incentivize its accuracy?

I also personally think that #284, #285, and #286 could all be handled by an offices.yml that captures House and Senate support offices, Congressional support offices, and House and Senate leadership offices. We're not trying to encode the formal hierarchy of the legislative branch into data, so it's okay to flatten it. We'd just be capturing what is basically the same data for all of them: name, phone, URL, email, etc.

[timball]

mixing house and senate data together in one file sounds like a bad idea .

[konklone]

I don't see why not -- we already mix them together for people and committees. There's nothing schema-wise that would differ between Senate and House support offices. Harmonizing data between the two chambers is a core function of this project.