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add leadership for the 116th Congress #660

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@JoshData JoshData commented Feb 4, 2019

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:

Name Official Title Title in this Pull Request
Grassley President Pro Tempore President Pro Tempore of the Senate
McConnell Republican Leader Senate Majority Leader
Thune Assistant Republican Leader Assistant Senate Majority Leader
Barrasso Republican Conference Chairman Senate Republican Conference Chair
Ernst Vice Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference Senate Republican Conference Vice Chair
Blunt Republican Policy Committee Chairman Senate Republican Policy Committee Chair
Schumer Democratic Leader / Chairman of the Conference Senate Minority Leader
Durbin Whip Senate Minority Whip
Murray Assistant Democratic Leader Assistant Senate Minority Leader
Stabenow Chairwoman of Policy & Communications Committee Senate Democratic Policy & Communications Committee Chair
Klobuchar Chair of Steering Committee Senate Democratic Steering Committee Chair
Pelosi Speaker of the House Speaker of the House
Hoyer Majority Leader House Majority Leader
Clyburn Majority Whip House Majority Whip
Lujan Assistant Speaker Assistant Speaker of the House
Jeffries Democratic Caucus Chairman House Democratic Caucus Chair
McCarthy Republican Leader House Minority Leader
Scalise Republican Whip House Minority Whip
Cheney Republican Conference Chairman House Republican Conference Chair
Palmer Republican Policy Committee Chairman House Republican Policy Committee Chair

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.

Past leadership roles' titles are updated accordingly as well.

fixes #654
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dwillis commented Feb 5, 2019

Ok by me.

@JoshData JoshData merged commit a3f5ecb into master Feb 6, 2019
@JoshData JoshData deleted the 116th_congress_leadership branch February 6, 2019 23:51
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