Relating Committee Meetings to Bills

[famitzsy8]

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I wanted to propose an enhancement to the API.

When working with specific bills, it is currently not possible to get the committee meeting(s) that have been held discussing the bill. Committee reports, for example have their eventId show up in the bill's actions, yet I have not yet found a workaround to do this with committee meetings, since the actions do not display them in the same way.

But this information does exist because each committee meeting has a relatedItems section (which lists the bills it discusses). I thus wanted to ask if it would be possible to add an endpoint, where one can get the committee meetings where a bill was discussed in, just with the ID of the bill itself.

/bill/{congress}/{billType}/{billNumber}/committee_meetings

To clarify why this will make a huge difference, it is because we currently would need to search through all committee meetings of a given Congress to find the one(s) matching their relatedItems section to the bill ID.

This would be awesome, thanks for considering!