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Return Public Laws by Specific Committees
Received from From Arin Shapiro in Senate:
Just got a question from a Committee wondering if the Congress.gov API is able to return all public laws applicable to each committee? If not, is it possible to add for future consideration/development?
Adding some context to this request: a number of committees log incoming executive communications in a web app. EC's or CN's etc, can be related to a public law. The system at this point requires the committee staff to find the law on congress.gov and manually enter it in the system. It would be ideal if we could have all public laws related to a committee pulled into their database on a schedule or enable a real time api call to reach out to loc and let them pick from a list of laws applicable to their committee.
The context is very helpful; thank you.
Are the Senate committees aware of the Legal Authority data relationships available for House Communications, which may be a good model for discussing your request.
For example, House 117EC3297 has a data relationship to this House 117R13514 - the public law that mandates the report.
About Communications to the House provides good information.
The text of S.2838 - Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act also has useful information.
@104PL104 - based on S.2838 does your House Communication EC-3297 example share a communication body, as a PDF or ASCII? https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2838/text#id34ad630a3ffb467a89d5ae075131693b
@c4lliope I searched the Congressional Record for "Alternative Decentralized and Centralized Wastewater Treatment Technology" to discover that Senate Communication EC2923 appears to be a companion to House Communication EC-3297.
S.2838 is a DRAFT bill that proposes a new workflow.
Did this help? I am not sure that I understand your question.
Ah, I had assumed S.2838 had been passed - apologies.
Pending the bill's passage, the textual contents of these communications seem like a good resource to share, and should this become our practice, I'll be sure to raise a discussion in the House Clerk's office regarding the sharing and publication of those communications - our LIMS program is perhaps a good place to ingress and disburse these records from the speaker's desk to congress.gov .