Committee Classification

  • The CommitteeClassification entity is only used in committee feeds and describes a political committee's classification.

  • The Committee element contains CommitteeClassificationCollection, holding all CommitteeClassification objects for a committee.

  • CommitteeClassification includes elements like EndDate, NormalizedDesignation, NormalizedType, RawDesignation, RawType, ScopeLevel, and StartDate.

  • The StartDate and EndDate specify the date range for a committee's classification.

Use CommitteeClassification to describe the classification of a political committee. The Committee element includes CommitteeClassificationCollection, which contains the full set of CommitteeClassification objects for a given committee in the feed.

Elements

The following table shows the elements for CommitteeClassification:

Element Multiplicity Type Additional Restrictions Description
EndDate 1 PartialDate The latest possible date in which a committee had this classification.
NormalizedDesignation 0 or more CommitteeDesignationEnum 1 for Federal, 0 or many for State. The normalized designation of a committee.
NormalizedType 0 or more CommitteeTypeEnum 1 for Federal, 0 or many for State. The normalized type of a committee.
RawDesignation 0 or more String 1 for Federal, 0 or many for State. The designation of a committee.
RawType 0 or more String 1 for Federal, 0 or many for State. The type of a committee.
ScopeLevel 1 IDREF The IDREF of the related politic district object
StartDate 1 PartialDate The earliest possible date in which a committee had this classification.

Examples

XML

     <CommitteeClassification>
        <EndDate>2023-02-31</EndDate>
        <NormalizedDesignation>authorized</NormalizedDesignation>
        <NormalizedType>candidate</NormalizedType>
        <RawDesignation>C</RawDesignation>
        <RawType>A</RawType>
        <ScopeLevel>ru000us</ScopeLevel>
        <StartDate>2023-01-01</StartDate>
      </CommitteeClassification>