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Template:CongLinks allows linking to external links found on most current U.S. Congress biographies and on many state-level political biographies. This will aid in the maintenance and standardization of these external links.
Usage
This template is only appropriate for legislators who served any time during or after 1991.
This template should not be
substituted .
Cut and paste
{{ CongLinks | congbio = | fec = | congress = | votesmart = }}
The order of the fields does not matter for results, but is useful for consistency and to see what's missing.
Fields
All parameters are optional, but if you don't include any of them, nothing will show up.
Do not use capital letters. They might disrupt the code.
Field
Data
Result
URL source
congbio
ID number of the congressional biography
Congressional Biography and Washington Post voting record
http://bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=[congbio]
fec
Federal Election Commission ID
Campaign finance reports and data
https://www.fec.gov/ data/search/?search=[fec]
congress
Path name
Legislation sponsored
https://www.congress.gov/ member/[congress]
votesmart
votesmart.org id
Biography, voting record, and interest group ratings
https://www.votesmart.org /candidate/[votesmart]
Example
John Boehner :
* {{ CongLinks | congbio = b000589 | fec = H0OH08029 | congress = john-boehner/102 | votesmart = 27015 }}
Tracking category
See also