U.S. House Committee Assignments from the 103rd to 117th Congress

U.S. House standing committee assignments from the 103rd to the 117th Congresses. The data were used to produce the multi-volume reference work, 'Committees in the U.S. Congress, 1789-1946'. It was compiled by author Charles Stewart of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Use Cases

• Analyzing committee membership trends over time based on the described historical scope.
• Studying the distribution of legislators across standing committees based on the dataset's focus.
• Modeling legislative influence and career paths based on committee assignment data.
• Creating network visualizations of committee co-membership across multiple congresses.

Strengths

• Covers a specific 15-congress time period from the 103rd to 117th Congress.
• Derived from a published, authoritative multi-volume reference work on congressional committees.
• Associated with a reputable academic institution, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Charles Stewart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Collection Method

Data used to produce the reference book 'Committees in the U.S. Congress, 1789-1946'.

Time Range

103rd to 117th Congresses

Geography

United States