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  1. Yahoo announces Sunlight Labs integration with YQL: http://bit.ly/WzL6X
  2. Committee memberships at last -- http://bit.ly/11Evnt
  3. new congressmen Mike Quigley (IL-5) and Scott Murphy (NY-20) added and Sen. Arlen Specter's party changed R to D
  4. all senators now have their senate_class
  5. just posted some updated phone numbers thanks to Nathan Woodhull -- some new functionality coming very soon, stay tuned
  6. new youtube_url parameter added for legislators (thanks to Senate staffer/API user Judson Blewett)
  7. @adrianholovaty @aaronsw @xenijardin @cjoh judging http://sunlightlabs.com/app... contest up to $15k for best transparency app
  8. @steven_nelson new APIs use application/xml and application/json content types
  9. @irabinovitch see docs for in_office and all_legislators parameters http://tinyurl.com/745puy
  10. 111th congress is now live -- more to come as their various ids and contact information is made more readily available
  11. @tweetcongress launched http://tweetcongress.org -- thanks for using sunlightlabsapi and the Ruby gem from @luigimontanez
  12. New experimental API methods announced, fuzzy search + lobbyist disclosures. http://tinyurl.com/625n4v
  13. non-voting delgates deserve API love too: updated Norton (DC) and Fortuno (PR). added Faleomavaega (AS), Bordallo (GU) and Christensen (VI).
  14. added a few missing (resigned/deceased) members from 110th congress (http://tinyurl.com/4nngxn)
  15. new legislators.allForZip convenience method -- get all reps+sens for an individual zipcode in a single call (that's 66% savings!)
  16. UPDATE: twitter_id added to legislators + data refresh + way to access resigned/defeated/deceased legislators http://tinyurl.com/6npkkj
  17. 0.1 release of Sunlight API ruby gem for all your rubyists out there: http://sunlight.rubyforge.org/ (thanks @luigimontanez)
  18. sneak peek of new api method http://tinyurl.com/6nbb4v
  19. just added new way to get multiple legislators in a single request http://tinyurl.com/5fcdev
  20. two small bugfixes to the new Sunlight Labs API: fixed XML entity escaping for legislators URLs and in getZipsFromDistrict.xml