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Members of the United States Congress, 1789-Present, in YAML/JSON/CSV, as well as committees, presidents, and vice presidents.

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Duplicate Joseph Biden records in executive.yaml

simonw opened this issue · comments

Joe Biden is listed twice in that file. First, for his two terms as vice president:

- id:
bioguide: B000444
thomas: '01284'
lis: S010
govtrack: 300008
opensecrets: N00001669
votesmart: 53279
icpsr: 14101
fec:
- S8DE00012
name:
first: Joseph
middle: Robinette
last: Biden
suffix: Jr.
nickname: Joe

And secondly for his term as president:

- id:
bioguide: B000444
thomas: '01284'
lis: S010
govtrack: 300008
opensecrets: N00001669
votesmart: 53279
icpsr: 14101
fec:
- S8DE00012
cspan: 34
wikipedia: Joe Biden
wikidata: Q6279
google_entity_id: kg:/m/012gx2
ballotpedia: Joe Biden
name:
first: Joseph
middle: R.
last: Biden
suffix: Jr.

Note that these records are also inconsistent with each other - for example one lists his middle name as Robinette and the other as R..