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Vote Endpoint?

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why is there not a vote endpoint?

hamkj7hpo

Using API For Congressional Voting

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Is it possible to use this api to figure out how each member of congress voted given a particular bill code?

tsathe

(law details): returns 500 for 118th congress

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When requesting the law details for a pub law in the 118th congress, the response is 500. e.g. Request Law number `815` of congress `118` and law type `pub` ```sh...

ryparker

Hi there, The `/member/{bioguideId}` endpoint returns terms in the format of: ``` { "chamber": "Senate", "congress": 116, "endYear": 2021, "memberType": "Senator", "startYear": 2019, "stateCode": "VT", "stateName": "Vermont" } ``` It...

Gmanicus

(bill actions): duplicate actions in unusual order

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As of 3/20 I've noticed duplicate actions (sometimes with minor text changes) on many legislation in the 118th congress. They seem to not only be duplicated but the duplicates are...

ryparker

From @jhanna71 - I didn't see any CRS Reports in the new Congress.gov API - https://api.data.gov/congress/v3/?api_key=API_KEY Can you please add them? I am currently using crsreports.congress.gov.

aweiss27

The bill list API currently returns items that are not in any particular order (that I recognize). There is an ability to sort by `updateDate`, however it would be nice...

ryparker

(bill): missing legislation

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The bill list API is missing the following 14 legislation from the 118th congress: ``` hr3 hr4 hr6 hr8 hr9 hr10 hr13 hr18 hr19 s448 s459 s494 s495 s497 ```...

ryparker

First page of `/members` is missing one item

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I happened to stumble across an odd behavior of the API. The `/members` endpoint does not return the full set for the requested limit when within the range of the...

Gmanicus

Amendment Text Endpoint Returns Webpage Links Instead of Actual Text

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### Description When accessing the endpoint `/amendment/{congress}/{amendmentType}/{amendmentNumber}/text` in the `api.congress.gov`, it returns links to webpages containing the text versions of the amendment instead of the actual text content. ### Expected...

tomasen