Historical Committee Memberships

[iita-atii]

Hey all, thanks again for your great work here. I'm wondering if you have any leads to get historical committee memberships, the committee-membership-current.yaml is great but I'm looking for as much history as possible. The only option I'm seeing is to parse it out of Congressional Record or Congressional Directory which is a headache.

What i've looked at:

api.congress.gov doesn't seem to include any committee information.

Current committee membership can be found in machine readable format at but no historical record I can find https://clerk.house.gov/xml/lists/MemberData.xml

The senate doesn't seem to have anything in machine readable format but current memberships can be found at https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Historical_Office.htm, but this doesn't include much for rankings data.

It seems the best source was the defunct propublica API members endpoint https://projects.propublica.org/api-docs/congress-api/members/, I'm wondering where they pulled that data from initially. Or maybe there's bulk-downloads of that data floating around somewhere.

[iita-atii]

Just saw the data at https://web.mit.edu/17.251/www/data_page.html which seems like it'll do the trick!

[barapa]

@iita-atii - can you give guidance on what exactly you are parsing and how you are doing it?

Any leads on more recent historical committee data - that link seems to end at 2017

[barapa]

For the senate, it looks like there are PDF's available here:
https://www.senate.gov/committees/committee_assignments.htm

Haven't found an equivalent for the house