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DEPRECATED. Simple app that displays contact information for US Congress representatives by district.

Home Page:http://www.callmycongress.com/

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Add representative websites

mariechatfield opened this issue · comments

commented

Request via email:

Is it possible to add the legislator's email address and official webpage to the search results?

Unfortunately, GovTrack.us's API does not expose email addresses for representatives. However, it does provide websites. That information should already be passed from the server, so a small change in the client is the only thing needed to display this additional information.

Reference:
Role API
Person API

commented

We're now using data directly from the US House and Senate, which offer a lot less information on each representative. I'm going to close this feature request for now, but if those endpoints offer more data in the future I might revisit this.