US Legislators

US Legislators data in JSON.

Installing

bower install us-legislators

Data

The following files contain the required data:

legislator.json

{
  "id": {
    "bioguide": "C000127",
    "thomas": "00172",
    "lis": "S275",
    "govtrack": 300018,
    "opensecrets": "N00007836",
    "votesmart": 27122,
    "fec": [
      "S8WA00194",
      "H2WA01054"
    ],
    "cspan": 26137,
    "wikipedia": "Maria Cantwell",
    "house_history": 10608,
    "ballotpedia": "Maria Cantwell",
    "maplight": 4541,
    "washington_post": "gIQAZxKkDP",
    "icpsr": 39310
  },
  "name": {
    "first": "Maria",
    "last": "Cantwell",
    "official_full": "Maria Cantwell"
  },
  "bio": {
    "birthday": "1958-10-13",
    "gender": "F",
    "religion": "Roman Catholic"
  },
  "terms": [
    {
      "type": "rep",
      "start": "1993-01-05",
      "end": "1994-12-01",
      "state": "WA",
      "district": 1,
      "party": "Democrat"
    },
    ...
    {
      "type": "sen",
      "start": "2013-01-03",
      "end": "2019-01-03",
      "state": "WA",
      "party": "Democrat",
      "class": 1,
      "url": "http://www.cantwell.senate.gov",
      "address": "311 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510",
      "phone": "202-224-3441",
      "fax": "202-228-0514",
      "contact_form": "http://www.cantwell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/email-maria",
      "office": "311 Hart Senate Office Building",
      "state_rank": "junior",
      "rss_url": "http://www.cantwell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/rss/feed"
    },
    ...
  ],
  "social": {
    "twitter": "CantwellPress",
    "youtube": "SenatorCantwell",
    "youtube_id": "UCN52UDqKgvHRk39ncySrIMw"
  },
  "committees": [
    {
      "committee_id": "SSCM01",
      "rank": 1,
      "title": "Chairman",
      "party": "majority"
    },
    ...
  ]
}

committees.json

{
  "type": "house",
  "name": "House Committee on Agriculture",
  "url": "http://agriculture.house.gov/",
  "thomas_id": "HSAG",
  "house_committee_id": "AG",
  "subcommittees": [
    {
      "name": "Conservation, Energy, and Forestry",
      "thomas_id": "15",
      "address": "1301 LHOB; Washington, DC 20515",
      "phone": "(202) 225-2171"
    },
    ...
  ],
  "address": "1301 LHOB; Washington, DC 20515-6001",
  "phone": "(202) 225-2171",
  "rss_url": "http://agriculture.house.gov/rss.xml",
  "jurisdiction": "The House Committee on Agriculture has jurisdiction over federal agriculture policy and oversight of some federal agencies, and it can recommend funding appropriations for various governmental agencies, programs, and activities, as defined by House rules.",
  "jurisdiction_source": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Committee_on_Agriculture"
}

The data is generated from congress-legilators data provided by https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators. This original data is in YAML format and the JSON version can be found in data folder.

Modifying

npm install us-legislators

Run the following commands to update the files:

$ bower install $ bower update $ make

Contribute to the project by forking this repo and submitting pull requests.

Examples

• US Senate and House Legislator Terms