Civic hacking Congress (part 1)

(This post is part of an ongoing series documenting adventures in father-son civic hacking.)

README

In October, the Library of Congress published a Congress.gov application programming interface. Using this API, we created House of Representatives, Senate and member profiles pages on USA.GovFresh.

Data

Data used for this project:

• api.congress.gov

Repo

Official repository:

• /LibraryOfCongress/api.congress.gov

Issues

Issues we submitted:

• CORS error
• Sponsored legislation API URL not correct?
• Improve member photo quality

Kudos

Big kudos to the Library of Congress for:

• Creating a public API.
• Creating a public repository.
• Openly and actively engaging with the public.

Demo

Legislative page:

House of Representative page:

Senate page:

Member profile page:

Feedback

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