add leadership for the 116th Congress #660
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This PR adds leadership from https://www.house.gov/leadership and http://www.senate.gov/senators/leadership.htm. Fixes #654.
I changed the way titles were done in the past: Titles now all have "House" or "Senate" in them so that the title can be fully understood without knowing the context of the relevant chamber. So, where we had Minority Leader before, this PR makes it House/Senate Minority Leader, which I think is clearer and more accurate since this data is typically displayed in applications that show information for Congress as a whole rather than just one chamber. I went back to historical leadership data and updated those titles to match as well.
I assumed all of the roles started on Jan 3 --- not sure if that's true.
I also made some changes to the official titles e.g. replacing the party in the top titles with Majority or Minority because this is how they are generally referred to, and otherwise they'd be inconsistent. I also changed Chairman/Chairwoman to Chair to avoid promoting gendered roles.
Here's the complete set of new data: