Latest U.S. Congress Updates & NY Times API compatibility

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    1. tfmorris Top Contributor Freebase Experts
      Sep 3, 2009
      tfmorris says:

      I've added Judy Chu who was elected to the House of Representatives in July via special election. As far as I know the U.S. Politician base should be complete now with all members who are in the Congressional Biography database.

      Another database/API which uses the same THOMAS identifiers is the New York Times Congressional API. Using Judy's ID of C001080 in a query, you can get all the info the Times has on her http://api.nytimes.com/svc/politics/v2/us/legislative/congress/members/C001080.json?api-key=####

      There's an interactive version that you can play with here and there's documentation on the API at http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/congress_api

      The Times has some more detailed info like voting records as well as some stats that they compute based on raw data. Freebase has more general information and better non-political linkages.

      2. tfmorris Top Contributor Freebase Experts
        Sep 3, 2009
        tfmorris says:

        Also added late arrivals Michael Quigley and Scott Murphy. Hopefully that's the last of the missing ones.

      3. tfmorris Top Contributor Freebase Experts
        Sep 25, 2009
        tfmorris says:

        Added George LeMieux. Paul Kirk (Ted Kennedy's replacement) will be added when he's sworn in.

      4. tfmorris Top Contributor Freebase Experts
        Sep 26, 2009
        tfmorris says:

        Paul G. Kirk, Jr. was sworn in today. New ID = K000374 (although the text of his Wikipedia article hasn't caught up yet)

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