code: def _normalize(self, name):
          
          name = re.sub(
              r'^(Senator|Representative|Sen\.?|Rep\.?|'
              'Hon\.?|Right Hon\.?|Mr\.?|Mrs\.?|Ms\.?|L\'hon\.?|'
              'Assembly(member|man|woman)) ',
              '',
              name)
          return name.strip().lower().replace('.', '')
docs: Normalizes a legislator name by stripping titles from the front,
          converting to lowercase and removing punctuation.