Civic hacking Congress (part 1)
Building congressional pages with the new Library of Congress Congress.gov API.
By: Luke Fretwell
Posted: October 26, 2022
Estimated read time: 1 minutes
(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:
Repo
Official repository:
Issues
Issues we submitted:
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
Share your feedback on the USA.GovFresh repo.