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The New York Times has just announced its new Congress API, which provides capability for developers to access to four sets of data about US Congressional representatives and their votes: “a list of members for a given Congress and chamber, details of a specific roll-call vote, biographical and role information about a specific member of Congress, and a member’s most recent positions on roll-call votes” (see Congress API profile for details).

The data the API provides “data comes directly from the U.S. House and Senate Web sites, and is updated throughout the day while Congress is in session.” And for individual member responses, the Times “include a numeric ID assigned by GovTrack, a free and open-source service that monitors legislative activity.”