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Committee meeting title returns the committee name and not the actual title of the meeting

Open tommagni opened this issue 8 months ago • 3 comments
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Hello. there's an issue with the titles returned in the get committee meeting endpoint.

For example calling: https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-meeting/119/house/117848 (https://www.congress.gov/event/119th-congress/house-event/117848)

returns:

{
    "committeeMeeting": {
        "chamber": "House",
        "committees": [
            {
                "name": "House Homeland Security",
                "systemCode": "hshm00",
                "url": "https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee/house/hshm00?format=json"
            }
        ],
        "congress": 119,
        "date": "2025-02-05T15:00:00Z",
        "eventId": "117848",
        "location": {
            "building": "Cannon House Office Building",
            "room": "310"
        },
        "meetingDocuments": [
            {
                "documentType": "Support Document",
                "format": "PDF",
                "name": "Hearing Notice",
                "url": "https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/117848/documents/HHRG-119-HM00-20250205-SD001.pdf"
            },
            {
                "documentType": "Hearing: Witness List",
                "format": "PDF",
                "name": "Hearing Witness List",
                "url": "https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/117848/documents/HHRG-119-HM00-WList-20250205.pdf"
            }
        ],
        "meetingStatus": "Scheduled",
        "title": "House Homeland Security",
        "type": "Hearing",
        "updateDate": "2025-03-02T05:07:28Z",
        "videos": [
            {
                "name": "Preparing the Pipeline: Examining the State of America's Cyber Workforce",
                "url": "https://www.congress.gov/event/119th-Congress/house-event/117848"
            },
            {
                "name": "Preparing the Pipeline: Examining the State of America's Cyber Workforce",
                "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pbR8tNXTytE"
            }
        ],
        "witnessDocuments": [
            {
                "documentType": "Witness Truth in Testimony",
                "format": "PDF",
                "url": "https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/117848/witnesses/HHRG-119-HM00-TTF-RussomannoPhDD-20250205.pdf"
            },
            {
                "documentType": "Witness Truth in Testimony",
                "format": "PDF",
                "url": "https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/117848/witnesses/HHRG-119-HM00-TTF-RashotteR-20250205.pdf"
            },
            {
                "documentType": "Witness Truth in Testimony",
                "format": "PDF",
                "url": "https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/117848/witnesses/HHRG-119-HM00-TTF-JonesC-20250205.pdf"
            },
            {
                "documentType": "Witness Truth in Testimony",
                "format": "PDF",
                "url": "https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/117848/witnesses/HHRG-119-HM00-TTF-StierM-20250205.pdf"
            },
            {
                "documentType": "Witness Statement",
                "format": "PDF",
                "url": "https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/117848/witnesses/HHRG-119-HM00-Wstate-StierM-20250205.pdf"
            },
            {
                "documentType": "Witness Statement",
                "format": "PDF",
                "url": "https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/117848/witnesses/HHRG-119-HM00-Wstate-RussomannoPhDD-20250205.pdf"
            },
            {
                "documentType": "Witness Statement",
                "format": "PDF",
                "url": "https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/117848/witnesses/HHRG-119-HM00-Wstate-JonesC-20250205.pdf"
            },
            {
                "documentType": "Witness Biography",
                "format": "PDF",
                "url": "https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/117848/witnesses/HHRG-119-HM00-Bio-JonesC-20250205.pdf"
            },
            {
                "documentType": "Witness Biography",
                "format": "PDF",
                "url": "https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/117848/witnesses/HHRG-119-HM00-Bio-RashotteR-20250205.pdf"
            },
            {
                "documentType": "Witness Statement",
                "format": "PDF",
                "url": "https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/117848/witnesses/HHRG-119-HM00-Wstate-RashotteR-20250205.pdf"
            },
            {
                "documentType": "Witness Biography",
                "format": "PDF",
                "url": "https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/117848/witnesses/HHRG-119-HM00-Bio-RussomannoPhDD-20250205.pdf"
            }
        ],
        "witnesses": [
            {
                "name": "David Russomanno, PhD",
                "organization": "University of Memphis",
                "position": "Executive Vice President, Academic Affairs and Provost"
            },
            {
                "name": "Mr. Robert Rashotte",
                "organization": "Fortinet",
                "position": "Vice President, Global Training and Technical Field Enablement"
            },
            {
                "name": "Mr. Max Stier",
                "organization": "Partnership for Public Service",
                "position": "President and Chief Executive Officer"
            },
            {
                "name": "Mr. Chris Jones",
                "organization": "Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corporation",
                "position": "President and Chief Executive Officer"
            }
        ]
    },
    "request": {
        "chamber": "house",
        "congress": "119",
        "contentType": "application/json",
        "eventId": "117848",
        "format": "json"
    }
}

Notice that title is "House Homeland Security" instaed of "Preparing the Pipeline: Examining the State of America's Cyber Workforce"

Thanks Tom

tommagni avatar Mar 17 '25 14:03 tommagni