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Hello, Open business meetings in the Senate, such as https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-meeting/118/senate/334445, do not have `relatedBills` or `meetingDocuments`. I would expect the... - `Legislative Branch Appropriations Act` - `Commerce, Justice, Science, and...

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Hi there, First of all, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year as well! It would be useful to have access to structured data around committee amendments (and,...

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REQUEST - Committee membership information - i.e., list of committees that member belonged to during each term served Per term per committee - member’s seniority rank, Senate-wide (October 2021) LOC...

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This is a feature request regarding congress.gov and its API. The request is twofold: 1. When related legislation is identified, Congress.gov should indicate and the API should return the first...

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There is an uncommon bill in the 6th congress named `6 cen_doc_h 73`. During a scraping run using: https://base.bingo/code/reap/src/branch/main/congress.process.rb I came across a number of errors I need to manually...

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Hi there, It's difficult to query bills when looking at a specific time frame. As an example: ``` https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill?api_key={{API_KEY}}&limit=250 &fromDateTime=2019-11-14T00:00:00Z &toDateTime=2019-11-14T23:00:00Z ``` This query spans 1 day in November of...

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It would be nice to have some documentation on exactly what each action type represents. Here are the action types i'm referring to (from https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/api.congress.gov/blob/main/Documentation/BillEndpoint.md#actions-level): > "Committee", "Calendars", "Floor", "BecameLaw",...

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I am trying to access the member container at the item level but get a key error. Here is the code I am using: # Get members information response =...

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As a user, I want the ability to view all the upcoming committee hearings (House/Senate) for the week. Currently, this is possible but difficult: I have to write my own...

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Not all of the action codes are documented, e.g. H34200. (from Bulk Data Task Force public meeting, April 2016 - about Bulk Data structure)

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