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A lot of my work revolves around committee hearings, and I've noticed that GovTrack, Sunlight, NYT, and the other usual suspects only track committee activity at the most basic levels. It seems like …
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The Sunlight Foundation tiene una arquitectura bastante buena de su "Congress API":
http://sunlightlabs.github.com/congress/
Creo que poder pasar lat, lng de parámetros sería muy útil `/legislators/…
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Polars supports nested data---such as lists and structs---in columns of data.
Here's an example from the [polars guide](https://docs.pola.rs/user-guide/expressions/aggregation/#basic-aggregations)
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For https://datasette.io/tutorials/explore
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Currently the app only allows for contacting Congress (hence the name). However, a user should be able to contact legislators at all relevant levels of government.
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I think they're NOOP builds, though?
https://circleci.com/gh/unitedstates/congress-legislators/222
I wonder if it's just a matter of disabling CircleCI for that branch?
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Simple fix would be to split the Congress Member's page up by party as well as chamber, to make it more obvious.
More involved solution could be to visually show all the legislators graded against …
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Going through unitedstates/congress-legislators, it seems in the olden days there was something of a 3-way tie among bioguide, govtrack, and thomas IDs as primary keys.
Nowadays, though, it seems t…
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Right now if you search the name of a state, it just pulls up mentions in bills. Would be helpful to display legislators from that state.
For example, [Oklahoma](http://www.opencongress.org/search/re…
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The nature of the API is slightly confusing: i didn't expect it to paginate by default.
If you could make it so the default call to `congress.legislators()`, or any other call, automatically fetche…