Kigezo:CongLinks

{{CongLinks}} allows linking to external links found on most current U.S. congress biographies. This will aid in the maintenance and standardization of these external links.

How to use

• This template is only appropriate for post-1991 legislators.
• This template should not be substituted.

Cut & paste

Either

{{CongLinks
| name            = 
| congbio         = 
| fec             =
| opensecrets     =
| votesmart       =
| ontheissuespath = 
| legistorm       =
| surge           =
| govtrack        =
| findagrave      =
| retrieved       =
}}

or

{{CongLinks | name = | congbio = | fec = | opensecrets = | votesmart  = | ontheissuespath =
| legistorm= | surge = | govtrack  = | findagrave= | retrieved= }}

The order of the fields does not matter.

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
name	name	If the article title is inappropriate for link captions. As of 30 December 2007, captions aren't used, so this is not a big deal.
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	http://herndon1.sdrdc.com /cgi-bin/can_detail/[fec]
opensecrets	opensecrets.org page	Campaign contributions	http://www.opensecrets.org /politicians/allsummary.asp?CID=[opensecrets]
votesmart	vote-smart.org id	Biography, voting record, and interest group ratings	http://www.vote-smart.org /bio.php?can_id=[votesmart]
ontheissuespath	Path name needed	Issue positions and quotes	http://www.ontheissues.org /[ontheissuespath]
legistorm	Path name needed	Staff salary data	http://www.legistorm.org /[legistorm]
surge	Statesurge index	Bills Sponsored	http://www.statesurge.com /members/[surge]
govtrack	GovTrack index	Congressional profile	http://www.govtrack.us /congress/person.xpd?id=[govtrack]
findagrave	FindAGrave index	Burial info. But if still alive, just don't include it	http://www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=[findagrave]
retrieved	date (yyyy-mm-dd)	date these links were last retrieved	no url

Example

David Davis (Tennessee politician):

{{ CongLinks 
| name =            David Davis 
| congbio =         D000606 
| fec =             H6TN01313
| opensecrets =     N00008758 
| votesmart =       BC038542 
| ontheissuespath = House/David_Davis.htm
| legistorm =       Rep_David_Davis/829.html
| surge =           753
| govtrack =        412235
| retrieved =       2008-02-04
}}

will return all relevant external links:

• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Voting record maintained by The Washington Post
• Campaign finance reports and data at the Federal Election Commission
• Campaign contributions at OpenSecrets.org
• Biography, voting record, and interest group ratings at Project Vote Smart
• Issue positions and quotes at On The Issues
• Staff salary data at Legistorm.com
• Current Bills Sponsored at Statesurge.com
• Congressional profile at GovTrack.us, retrieved on 2008-02-04

See also

• {{CongBio}}
• {{Cleanup Congress Bio}} puts articles in the category, Category:Biographical Directory of the United States Congress cleanup.
• {{Bioguide}} looks like this:
   This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Congress/Bioguide, a subpage of Project Congress, tracks how well information is imported from the Bioguide.