Ruby wrapper for the Sunlight Congress API

The Sunlight Congress API is a live JSON API for the people and work of Congress, provided by the Sunlight Foundation.

Installation

gem install congress

Documentation

[http://rdoc.info/gems/congress][documentation] [documentation]: http://rdoc.info/gems/congress

Authentication

All requests to the Congress API require a Sunlight API key. An API key is free to register and has no usage limits.

Usage Examples

Setup

require 'congress'
client = Congress::Client.new(YOUR_SUNLIGHT_API_KEY)

Fetch current legislators' names, IDs, biography, and social media

client.legislators

Fetch representatives and senators for a latitude/longitude or zip code

client.legislators_locate(37.775, -122.418)
client.legislators_locate('94107')

Fetch congressional districts for a latitude/longitude or zip code

client.districts_locate(37.775, -122.418)
client.districts_locate('94107')

Fetch current committees, subcommittees, and their membership

client.committees

Fetch legislation in the House and Senate

client.bills

Fetch legislation related to health care

client.bills_search(:query => "health care")

Fetch roll call votes in Congress

client.votes

Fetch to-the-minute updates from the floor of the House and Senate

client.floor_updates

Fetch committee hearings in Congress

client.hearings

Fetch bills scheduled for debate in the future, as announced by party leadership

client.upcoming_bills

Supported Ruby Versions

This library aims to support and is tested against the following Ruby implementations:

Ruby 1.9.3
Ruby 2.0.0
Ruby 2.1
Ruby 2.2
JRuby 1.7
JRuby 9.0.0.0

If something doesn't work on one of these interpreters, it should be considered a bug.

This library may inadvertently work (or seem to work) on other Ruby implementations, however support will only be provided for the versions listed above.

If you would like this library to support another Ruby version, you may volunteer to be a maintainer. Being a maintainer entails making sure all tests run and pass on that implementation. When something breaks on your implementation, you will be personally responsible for providing patches in a timely fashion. If critical issues for a particular implementation exist at the time of a major release, support for that Ruby version may be dropped.

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