legislator
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.
Element information
Content
- Any text (mixed) content, intermingled with:
- Choice [0..*]
- footnote-refAn element used to reference a footnote used for a note of reference, explanation, or comment.
- footnoteAn element used for a note of reference, explanation, or comment.
Attributes
Name | Occ | Type | Description | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
name-id | [0..1] | xsd:anySimpleType | The unique identification for an individual, assumed to be the key field to a database of descriptions of people | |
sort-field | [0..1] | xsd:anySimpleType | ||
state | [0..1] | xsd:anySimpleType | ||
district | [0..1] | xsd:anySimpleType | ||
party | [0..1] | xsd:anySimpleType | ||
role | [0..1] | Anonymous | Indicates the type of related document associated with a measure. | Default value is "legislator". |
unaccented-name | [0..1] | xsd:anySimpleType |
Used in
- Anonymous type of element recorded-vote
- Anonymous type of element legislators