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When the bill actions list item includes a link to the corresponding Clerk House Roll Call Vote, the link it returns is invalid. Here's an example: Bill endpoints endpoint: "v3/bill/118/hres/1071/actions"...

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When attempting to download all the texts in all formats (xml, html, pdf), congress.gov will eventually block requests with a 429 response and a javascript challenge. I noticed the challenge...

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When requesting a record from the daily-congressional-record API, links to the "Formatted Text" version of `entireIssue` do not include all of the text from the record. e.g. ```sh curl --location...

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The committee-report list response has duplicates where only `updateDate` has changed. Some of the duplicates have a slightly different `citation`. Request committee-reports list with offset of 40. ```sh curl --location...

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I am unable to access the API anymore from hosting VPSes I have running on Linode and Digital Ocean. It was working fine for months, but now, when I try...

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This is not a bug. This issue is to offer some insight on how term data could be made more useful for consumers and to aid in the design of...

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Colleagues report they are running into some odd behavior from the congress.gov API when trying to access full bill text: When they try to access the xml version of the...

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Fetching the amendment/text endpoint is resulting in the following error: `{ "error": "'NoneType' object has no attribute 'documentver_set' (AttributeError)", "request": { "amendmentNumber": "303", "amendmentType": "hamdt", "amendmentUrl": "https://api.congress.gov/v3/amendment/118/hamdt/303?format=json", "congress": "118", "contentType":...

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I cant seem to find where to access these records in either this API or the gov info api, the location for these records are located here: https://crsreports.congress.gov/

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The late representative McEachin, A. Donald (`M001200`) returns `"currentMember": true,` even though he passed away in 2022. Request: ```sh curl --location 'https://api.congress.gov/v3/member/M001200?format=json&api_key=' ``` Response: ```json { "member": { "addressInformation": {...

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