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If only Congress had an API...

    POST /house-of-representatives/?district=4&action=expel
    POST /house-of-representatives/?district=4&action=elect&candidate=329183

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Here is a usable API that's live for accessing government data: http://wiki.sunlightlabs.com/Sunlight_Labs_API

Doesn't support write quite like that yet ;)

There is actually an API available. I'm currently working with it to produce a longer lasting version of this same concept, though the concept is kind of not interesting now that like a dozen different people did this...

i'd rather ?action be part of the method than the query string. in case they're reading.

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