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congress.gov API
I recently went through the Congress.gov API signup process and received an API via the page after sign-up and well as in the email I signed up with. It did...
Should be straightforward in java - basically every endpoint has a response type that it returns instead of a string. In python the `dataclass` decorator can be used
Hello, I am a developer using the congress.gov API for a civic tech project. I've noticed a potential data discrepancy concerning: 119_HRES_713 119_SJRES_71 119_SJRES_49 119_HRES_282 119_SJRES_10 These are failed bills/resolutions....
Representatives appear to be missing both the officialWebsiteUrl along with address information (officeAddress and phoneNumber). Some senators appear to be missing address information (officeAddress and phoneNumber). /member/{bioguideId} format=json
1. Back on 7/23/25, HNAT ordered bills to be reported in a markup. Among those are HR179 and HR345. congress.gov and the API are not accurately showing these updates: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/345/all-actions...
When fetching multiple batches from a cursor it would be helpful to make the current position in the cursor explicit in the result. e.g. `curl "https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill?format=json&api_key="` returns this pagination object:...
The `[/house-vote/{congress}/{session}/{voteNumber}/members]` endpoint returns '_houseRollCallVoteMemberVotes_' as JSON root instead of '_houseRollCallMemberVotes_' as outlined in the example on api.congress.gov. To reproduce: `curl --get "https://api.congress.gov/v3/house-vote/119/1/1/members?api_key=key"` Returns: `{ "houseRollCallVoteMemberVotes": { // ETC }`...
See README.md for building instructions Currently, the application will fetch member data and save it to member.json. An HTTP GET request with the following format is made ``` GET /v3/member?api_key=API_KEY&limit=1...
Addresses https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/api.congress.gov/issues/280
