committee-communications-lookup

web app stuff

I think the way to do this is actually to use FooTable (which requires Bootstrap), which will allow us to pretty easily make a filter table.

So we'll use pandas to get the data in the right format and to an html table, then we use flask to get it set up as a web app and FooTable to do all the nifty other stuff.

Testing

To test on Windows, open up command prompt (Windows-x c), then go to the repo's directory (cd "Documents\Cong list\committee-communications-lookup") and deploy the app locally (heroku local -f Procfile.windows).

To commit any changes and get them on the Github, open the Github desktop application and press Sync in the top left, adding a message to explain what you've done.

This will not change the deployed app on the website (at committee- communications.herokuapp.com). To do that, you'll need to commit the changes (which you do in the previous step) and then, on the command line from within the committee-communications-lookup directory, type git push heroku origin to deploy it on the web.

functionality

This is a web app to get a roster of the contact info for senators/reps in specific committees or sub-committees. You will be able to select the committee you are interested in, and then receive pertinent Washington contact information.

TERMINOLOGY: For the remainder of this README, "congressperson" will be abbreviated to "CP." The "House of Representatives" is "HR."

GOAL: Generate lists of contact information for easy contacting of multiple CPs. Target specific committees for specific issues and bills.

STAGE 1: Select a committee, generate roster with contact info, with checkboxes to select what info to display . Roster can be downloaded. - Use "bioguide" as marker for each CP. - From "committees-current.yaml" : - ["type"] - ["name"] - ["senate_committee_id"] - ["house_committee_id"] - ["subcommittees"]["name"] - ["subcommittees"]["thomas_id"] - ["subcommittees"]["phone"] - From "committee-membership-current" : - the "senatecommitteeid" or "housecommitteeid" with&without subcommittee thomas numbers. Example: "SSAP17" . Underneath: - ["bioguide"] - ["title"] - From "legislators-current.yaml" : (after "id") - ["bioguide"] - ["name"]["official_full"] - ["bio"]["gender"] - Term, one that ends after the current date - ["type"] - ["state"] - ["district"] (only relevant for HR) - ["address"] in zip code "20510" - ["phone"] beginning with "202" - ["fax"] beginning with "202" - ["contact_form"] - ["office"] - From "legistlators-social-media.yaml" : (after "id") - ["bioguide"] - ["social"]["twitter"] - ["social"]["facebook"]

Stage 2: Choose a bill, it generates the roster contact list for the relevant committee.

Stage 3: Roster contact list can be texted to a phone number or a group chat.

Stage 4: Roster contact list numbers can be called through Google Hangouts or similar program.