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1) Make an API for Congress.gov publicly available. Congress.gov has an internal API that shares legislative information in a structured data format between internal stakeholders. It should make an API...
Action links should be location-neutral references. E.g. A citation to a page of the CR (like S-114-123) would be preferable to a link to a CR page on Congress.gov. (from...
Sometimes LoC renames subject terms slightly, and then it’s difficult to reconcile newly updated bills with previously fetched / historical bills that use the old forms of the term names....
Commercial entities (e.g., Leadership Directories, Google) have requested that more historical data be made available.
REQUEST - Ability to perform a bill title search for legislation (October 2021) LOC ASSESSMENT - Bill title search is complicated
REQUEST - It would be great to have the ability to use query params (?congress=117&chamber=house) rather than route params (/117/house) for the filter parameters so that they could be mixed...
REQUEST - Ability to perform a text search for legislation (from Senate Foreign Relations, John Dutton, October 2021) LOC ASSESSMENT - Bill text search is complicated due to multiple versions...
I'm working on an application that queries the API to answer user questions, and I would like it to return source URLs for the information retrieved. Returning the API call...
User feedback, bill endpoint: "Perhaps another filter [in the bill endpoint], which is lastActionDate. I think this is probably what most people want to know anyways."
`nominationType` is provided on the nomination List API but it's not included in the nomination details API. I had expected the details API to include all of the list API's...
