United States Congress Data Dictionary of Legislative Documents

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Element Name:	legislator
Description:	The legislator's name as it should appear when displayed. This element contains several attributes to further identify the legislator (name-id, party, state, and district). The name-id is a unique identifier to the person. The sort-field provides additional control for sorting of legislator names upon display. When displayed in committee reports, committee members are displayed by order of seniority.
DTD Content Model:	(#PCDATA)
Attributes:	Name: district Description: The district number within a state associated with a Member of Congress. “00” is used for Members who serve At-Large, DC, or territories. Value(s): CDATA Default Value: #IMPLIED Name: name-id Description: The unique identification for an individual, assumed to be the key field to a database of descriptions of people. Value(s): CDATA Default Value: #IMPLIED Name: party Description: The political party associated with a legislator (e.g., R, D, or I). Value(s): CDATA Default Value: #IMPLIED Name: role Description: The role associated with the element. For example, in the case of the legislator element, the role would represent the role of the legislator (e.g., Speaker of the House, Chairman) in the specific context that the legislator element is being used. Value(s): legislator, chairman, speaker, vice-chairman, ranking Default Value: legislator Name: sort-field Description: Attribute used to sort the group of elements associated with the sort-field attribute. Value(s): CDATA Default Value: #IMPLIED Name: state Description: The abbreviated name of the state, DC, or territory. Value(s): CDATA Default Value: #IMPLIED Name: unaccented-name Description: A name of an individual repesented so that the accented characters are replaced with their unaccented counterparts (e.g., a-acute (á) is represented as the letter a). The purpose of this attribute is to be compatible with search engines and legacy systems. Value(s): CDATA Default Value: #IMPLIED
Parent Elements:	recorded-vote