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Documentation for the ProPublica Congress API
Using ProPublicaR for API pulls of Congressional statements. I'd like to do pull statements that use a phrase like "mental health" but it results in an empty matrix. I don't...
I assume this is the "ideal" political lean of the legislator compared to their `dw_nominate` score? Where does this ideal value come from?
re: HTTP Request - `GET https://api.propublica.org/congress/v1/{congress}/bills/{bill-id}/cosponsors.json` i.e. the endpoint described on [this page](https://projects.propublica.org/api-docs/congress-api/endpoints/#get-cosponsors-for-a-specific-bill) of the documentation It seems the API was down yesterday for several hours while changes were being...
The data the API currently returns for Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-4) includes a `twitter_account` field that points to the account [@RepChrisSmith](https://twitter.com/repchrissmith). I don't know if that was ever Rep. Smith's...
Calls to endpoint https://api.propublica.org/congress/v1/117/House/committees.json (with proper authentication) yields results with null chair, chair_id, chair_party, chair_state, chair_uri, ranking_member_id fields for all committees. Partial result.... ```json "status":"OK", "copyright":"Copyright (c) 2022 Pro Publica...
Several bills return JSON which cannot be read by most parsers, such as python's `json.loads()`. These seem to be caused by stray "\" characters in the bill summaries. An example...
Filing this as it seems to have just come up in our system, some bills are not up to date in the API. - H.R.586 - STANDUP Act of 20211,...
I can't tell if this is an enhancement request or a bug. In the JSON response for the (Search) Bills API, it would be useful to have a num_results field...
In the Get Recent Votes endpoint, nominations show up like this: ``` "nomination": { "nomination_id": "PN35-115", "number": "PN35", "name": "Elaine L. Chao", "agency": "Department of Transportation" } ``` However, in...
Of the following endpoints: 1. List of Members 2. Get a Specific Member 3. Get New Members 4. Get Current Members by State/District 5. Get Members Leaving Office The data...