gerard070
commented
11 months ago For reference, some docs from propublica
https://projects.propublica.org/api-docs/congress-api/
https://www.propublica.org/nerds/lobbying-registration-database-reporting-recipe
I've begun researching sources for lobby data that we can link to US officials that we have voting history for. The end state would be to surface pertinent lobby / funding data on a representatives details page, to give users more insight into the funding that is supporting the representative.
That means this ticket will ultimately need to break out into at least a UI and Research ticket (maybe index too)
I found a potentially excellent primary source from the senate.gov Lobby Disclosure act, with endpoints listed below.
I have also generated an API key and begun pinging the data
curl "https://lda.senate.gov/api/v1/contributions/?format=json" -H "X-API-Key: 843d6d52598672298ff2e09478dd3d338cf64460"We still need to flesh out what data is relevant and useful, there is a lot. I will comment more as I learn
Docs
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/opr.htm
API Docs
https://lda.senate.gov/api/v1/ https://lda.senate.gov/api/v1/contributions/
API Research
https://lda.senate.gov/filings/public/contribution/search/?registrant=®istrant_lobbyist=&report_period=&report_year=&report_dt_posted_from=&report_dt_posted_to=&report_filing_uuid=&report_house_doc_id=&contribution_date_from=&contribution_date_to=&contribution_amount_min=&contribution_amount_max=&contribution_type=&contribution_contributor=&contribution_payee=&contribution_honoree=&search=search
https://lda.senate.gov/filings/public/contribution/9e710e55-c11d-47c4-b3e7-a24c64443594/print/
API Examples
https://lda.senate.gov/api/v1/?format=json
Here are some initial resources
https://politics.stackexchange.com/search?q=elections https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/3307/data-source-for-2012-us-congress-and-us-senate-elections/79999#79999
Election and voting information
https://electionlab.mit.edu/ https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/IG0UN2 (also credits MIT) https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/election-and-voting-information/ http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G12/CT http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G12/CT This page is for offices up for election in 2012. Find 2013 elections here This page is for offices up for election in 2013. Find 2014 elections here.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GhJjehBDFE50I7-jhU8IaZDypcIzzZg64A92ytI-pi8/edit#gid=0