Yvonne Kinsey   •   almost 10 years ago

House Sub-committees do not exist

Committee url returns no sub-committees for the House. Of the 72 sub-committees, all of them are for the senate.

This may be either the house has only committees (no sub-committees) or the api has an error.

If it is that the House has no sub-committees, why does the documentation have this example to pull
Subcommittees of the House Ways and Means Committee:
/committees?parent_committee_id=HSWM

I did this url:
http://congress.api.sunlightfoundation.com/committees?subcommittee=true&chamber=house&apikey=...

For this results:
{"results":[],"count":0,"page":{"count":0,"per_page":20,"page":1}}

This is also true for Joint chambers. Although, this makes more sense. Joint is a big project and probably not broken into sub-committees.

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  Eric Mill   •   almost 10 years ago

  Hi Yvonne,

  This question is better discussed over at the Sunlight Labs API discussion group:
  http://groups.google.com/group/sunlightlabs-api-discuss

  But the short answer is that the House has been very slow to officially publish subcommittee memberships. The community has been discussing this for the last few months here:
  https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators/issues/36

  But your question prompted me to check again, and it turns out the House did finally publish this information, as a PDF, on April 16:
  http://clerk.house.gov/committee_info/scsoal.pdf

  So we'll get this information into our APIs at some point soon.

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  Yvonne Kinsey   •   almost 10 years ago

  Thanks.

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