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Documentation for the ProPublica Congress API
It's helpful for hearings not to disappear from the "upcoming" feed immediately upon the first minute that they start. Ideally they'd remain part of the feed at least for the...
When an incorrect API URL is requested, the error message that comes back suggests that the API key is wrong or missing: ``` curl "https://api.propublica.org/congress/v1/115/house/votes/2017/08.json" -H "X-API-Key: [redacted]" {"message":"Missing Authentication...
Here's a relevance search (ordered by `_score`) for `"health care"` (as a quoted phrase):  The first page of results (this is true of all 20, even...
When returning search results for bills that match a keyword, it'd be a huge improvement to return the excerpts of text matches. ElasticSearch provides this, and it really helps to...
Some values that are per-role would also benefit by being part of the core group of top-level fields returned with a member. An example of this can be seen already,...
In the Sunlight Congress API, legislators have both a `first_name` and a `nickname`, for when their legal name and the name they go by differs. There is also a `name_suffix`,...
There are 3 distinct ways the Pro Publica API nests results about members and indexes their IDs: * Most [lists of members per-congress](https://projects.propublica.org/api-docs/congress-api/endpoints/#lists-of-members): `results[]` -> `members[]` -> `id` * [List...
I attempted to fetch the wrong URL (it's missing the `/members/` part of the path), but it gave me a `Missing Authentication Token` error that suggested the API key was...
No results were returned when querying: https://api.propublica.org/congress/v1/114/house/committees.json Tried the same for senate and for house/senate with 113th congress. Example json: "{\n \"status\":\"OK\",\n \"copyright\":\"Copyright (c) 2017 Pro Publica Inc. All Rights...
When trying to match up members with their committee memberships i'm seeing the following committee codes from the get specific member API call which does not exist in the Get...