Data sources

Live government meetings (streams)

• YouTube Data API v3 www.googleapis.com
• U.S. House of Representatives www.house.gov
• U.S. Senate www.senate.gov
• Office of the Architect of the Capitol www.aoc.gov
• The White House www.whitehouse.gov
• Federal Reserve www.federalreserve.gov
• Federal cabinet departments (Agriculture, Education, Energy, HHS, DHS, HUD, Interior, Labor, State, Transportation, VA)
• House and Senate committee websites (*.house.gov, *.senate.gov)
• All 50 state legislature websites (Alabama through Wyoming, plus DC Council)

Federal schedule

• House Clerk floor-activity feed clerk.house.gov
• Senate floor schedule & roll-call vote feed www.senate.gov
• Congress.gov committee schedule www.congress.gov
• Congress.gov API (v3) api.congress.gov

Elections & candidates

• Wikipedia (primary source for races, candidates, stages, results) en.wikipedia.org
• Federal Election Commission (FEC) www.fec.gov
• Ballotpedia (election look-ups) ballotpedia.org

Politicians

• Wikipedia (bios, photos) en.wikipedia.org
• Congressional Biographical Directory (Bioguide) bioguide.congress.gov
• Federal Election Commission (FEC) www.fec.gov

Bills & legislation

• Congress.gov API — federal bills full text & metadata api.congress.gov
• Congress.gov — bill pages www.congress.gov
• Official bill-tracking sites for all 50 state legislatures (e.g. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov, capitol.texas.gov, nysenate.gov, malegislature.gov, …)

News

• CivicStream newsroom (in-house editorial; aggregated from public press releases, government newsroom feeds, and wire reports indexed by our scrapers)

Imagery & reference

• Wikimedia Commons (state flags, official imagery) commons.wikimedia.org
• Wikipedia API (politician thumbnails, bios) en.wikipedia.org