(committee, committee/{house}) - returns 500 when passing fromDateTime param

[njgingrich]

Certain equests to committee endpoints:

• https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee
• https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee/house
• https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee/senate

Return a 500 response if a fromDateTime parameter is passed with certain dates.

Error response:

{
  "error": "cannot access local variable 'result' where it is not associated with a value (UnboundLocalError)",
  "request": {
    "chamber": "senate",
    "contentType": "application/json",
    "format": "json"
  }
}

Example requests that failed:
https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee/senate?fromDateTime=2024-11-01T00:00:00Z
https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee/house?fromDateTime=2024-11-20T00:00:00Z
https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee?fromDateTime=2024-11-01T00:00:00Z
https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee?fromDateTime=2024-08-02T00:00:00Z
https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee?fromDateTime=2024-07-01T00:00:00Z&toDateTime=2024-09-01T00:00:00Z

Exampe successful request:
https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee?fromDateTime=2024-07-01T00:00:00Z

My initial hypothesis was that the endpoint is erroring if there are no committees with update_dates returned, but another failed request is https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee?fromDateTime=2024-08-01T00:00:00Z. The successful request above however returns a committee with an update_date of "2024-08-27T17:40:40Z", which should be included when passing a fromDateTime of 2024-08-01T00:00:00Z but instead the endpoint 500s.

[wblackerby]

Thanks for reporting this, @njgingrich. I was able to replicate the problem. We will look into it.