Civic hacking Congress (part 1)

Building congressional pages with the new Library of Congress Congress.gov API.

By Luke Fretwell ยท 26 Oct 2022

(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:

Legislative page

House of Representative page:

House of Representative page

Senate page:

Senate page

Member profile page:

Member profile page

Feedback

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