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The Member resource provides information on individual Senators and Representatives. Many of these API calls are scoped to a particular session, and those that are will assume the current session if you don't provide one as an argument.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| _id | The unique ID of the member in the API database. |
| assemblyId | The ID of the person on the General Assembly website. |
| type | The type of the member in the General Assembly. |
| firstName | The first name of the member. |
| middleName | The middle name of the member. |
| lastName | The last name of the member. |
| nickname | The nickname of the member. |
| party | A letter indicating the party of the individual. "R" for Republican, "D" for Democrat, and so on. |
| district | The district number the member represents. |
| city | The city the person represents. |
| capitolAddress | Capitol Address, if provided. |
| districtAddress | District Address, if provided. |
| photoUri | URI of the persons photo. |
| sessions | An array of session ID's where this person has been active. |
This API call will retrieve a list of members active in the current session, unless a sessionId query parameter is provided with the ID of a different session. That list will be a JSON array of JSON objects that contain the unique ID of the member, the display name, the party, and the photoUri. For example...
[
{"_id": "abcabc", "displayName": "Bacon Sammich", "party": "D", "photoUri": "http://bacoon.sammich/photo.gif"},
{"_id": "defdef", "displayName": "Ham Sammich", "party": "R", "photoUri": "http://ham.sammich/photo.gif"}
]This API call will retrieve the full descriptive object outlined in the model above for a particular representative or senator. In the event you provide an invalid ID, you'll get a 404 response.
This API call will retrieve a JSON object of the votes this member has recorded, keyed on what they voted, with values being an array of vote IDs:
{
"yea": ["voteid1", "voteid2", "voteid3"],
"nay": ["voteid4", "voteid5", "voteid6"],
"nv": ["voteid7"],
"exc": ["voteid8", "voteid9"]
}
The strings above will be the unique IDs of vote objects. In the event no matching votes are found, a 204 will be returned. To retrieve a list of votes from a different session, provide a sessionId query parameter with the session ID.