congressional committee availability question

[knickfan]

I have been trying to get congressional committees and find the following:

• no house or senate committees prior to the 110th congress
• house and senate committees for 110, 111, 112, and 115 with 113 and 114 missing

Should 113 and 114 be available and should any prior congresses be available?

[dwillis]

Hi @knickfan, thanks for the report. We'll get 113th and 114th responses working again asap. Per our docs, we have committee data from the 110th Congress on.

[dwillis]

@knickfan the responses for the 113th and 114th congresses work now.

[knickfan]

Fix works for many but several cases return {'status': '500', 'error': 'Internal Server Error'}

Here is a test case:
https://api.propublica.org/congress/v1/113/senate/committees/SSJU/subcommittees/SSJU25.json

[dwillis]

Thanks, will check out.

[knickfan]

There are many returning that error. Do you want the bunch or just the one? I can provide a list of urls if it'll help.

[dwillis]

@knickfan sorry, my earlier response was aimed only at the List of Committees responses, not the individual committee/subcommittee responses (which are different requests). We'll fix those, too.

Part of the issue is that getting committee data, unlike bills and votes, is fairly labor-intensive.