Sunlight Labs Congress API
From their site: We set out to create an up-to-date database for the 110th Congress that provides basic clerical information about members of congress (phone, email, district etc.) via API. Moreover, we provide converter methods to convert between the different IDs, thereby facilitating bringing together data about the same person from different sources. To complete the package, we have provided basic API methods that tie cities to zipcodes to districts to latitude/longitude, perfect for those web-based mashups.
Specs
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Single purpose API
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REST
URI Query String/CRUD
JSON, XML
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Yes
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Followers (23)
Developers (6)
API Mashups (20)
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Guess if congress members are democrats or republicans based on photos.
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Call Congress using the Twilio.js client.
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An iPhone app that mashes up a variety of different data for Congress including videos, twitter feeds, office maps, click to call, find legislator by GPS, recent votes, websites and committees.
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