Questions regarding senate roll call data
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When processing roll call data for
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1182/vote_118_2_00141.xml
I noticed the data linked to individual voters uses an lis_member_id in order to distinguish individual members of senate.
Is there a reason biogude id isn't used here or at least made available in the roll_call_voting data for consistency? For one it doesn't seem like LIS member id's are available via API (like congress.gov) but bioguide ID's are. Also worth noting bioguides are provided for house roll call files like https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2023/roll035.xml for example
2 questions
- can bioguide id's be made available in senate roll call data files https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1182/vote_118_2_00141.xml ?
- if not is there a directory or api call i could use to effectively gather LIS member id's for senators?
Checking with colleagues at the Senate.
https://www.senate.gov/about/senator-lookup.xml provides a mapping of lis_id to bioguide_id. We will further explore having bioguide_id directly added to the roll call votes.
Thank you.
thats perfect much appreciated
There is a Database that houses all the Senators and there ID's numbers and so on. I know what your where talking about where LIS member id's are available via API (like congress.gov) that would be awesome