Sunlight Labs Congress Connector

Intro

Sunlight Labs Congress is a public resource website for understanding and tracking the U.S. Congress. Use Domo's Sunlight Labs Congress connector to retrieve data about activity in the U.S. Congress, such as legislation, hearings, roll call votes, and more. To learn more about the Sunlight Congress API, visit their page (https://sunlightlabs.github.io/congress/).

You connect to your Sunlight Labs Congress account in the Data Center. This topic discusses the fields and menus that are specific to the Sunlight Labs Congress connector user interface. General information for adding DataSets, setting update schedules, and editing DataSet information is discussed in Adding a DataSet Using a Data Connector.

Prerequisites

To connect to your Sunlight Labs Congress account and create a DataSet, you must have a Sunlight Congress API key. Currently Sunlight Congress's API registration page is down. We are working to figure out how to get around this situation.

Connecting to Your Sunlight Labs Congress Account

This section enumerates the options in the Credentials and Details panes in the Sunlight Labs Congress Connector page. The components of the other panes in this page, Scheduling and Name & Describe Your DataSet, are universal across most connector types and are discussed in greater length in Adding a DataSet Using a Data Connector.

Credentials Pane

This pane contains fields for entering credentials to connect to your Sunlight Labs Congress account. The following table describes what is needed for each field:

Field	Description
API Key	Enter your Sunlight Congress API key.

Once you have entered valid Sunlight Labs Congress credentials, you can use the same account any time you go to create a new Sunlight Labs Congress DataSet. You can manage connector accounts in the Accounts tab in the Data Center. For more information about this tab, see Managing User Accounts for Connectors.

Details Pane

This pane contains a single menu from which you select a report.

Menu

Description

Report

Select the Sunlight Labs Congress report you want to run. The following reports are available:

Bills	Returns legislation in the House and Senate back to 2009. Updated daily.
Committees	Returns current committees, subcommittees, and their membership.
Floor Updates	Returns to-the-minute updates from the floor of the House and Senate.
Hearings	Returns committee hearings in Congress. Updated as hearings are announced.
Legislators	Returns current legislators' names, IDs, biographies, and social media information.
Upcoming Bills	Returns bills scheduled for debate in the future, as announced by party leadership.
Votes	Returns roll call votes in Congress back to 2009. Updated within minutes of voting.

Other Panes

For information about the remaining sections of the connector interface, including how to configure scheduling, retry, and update options, see Adding a DataSet Using a Data Connector.