Votes

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Wiki ▸ Legislative Actions ▸ Vote

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Vote data is taken from the Sunlight Congress API. The Sunlight data is collected by scrapers hosted at UnitedStates Github repo, which pulls all of the data from THOMAS.

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Source api : Sunlight Congress API
Endpoint documentation: http://sunlightlabs.github.io/congress/votes.html
requires api key?: Yes, requires a Sunlight API key
endpoint used in BFF scripts: 'http://congress.api.sunlightfoundation.com/votes?&fields=bill,voters.BIOGUIDE_ID,voted_at&per_page=50&apikey=API_KEY