unitedstates/congress

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A community-run Python toolkit that collects and converts official U.S. Congress data—bills, amendments, roll call votes, nominations, and committee meetings—into simple structured JSON/XML files. It includes scrapers, a GovInfo.gov bulk-data fetcher, and a CLI runner (usc-run) for each data type.

Use cases

• download and convert congressional bill status data to
• scrape house and senate roll call votes
• fetch bill text documents from govinfo.gov
• build a dataset of legislation for research or analysis
• track amendments and nominations in congress
• mirror bulk congressional data locally for a civic app

When to choose

• you need structured, public-domain data on U.S. legislation, votes, or nominations
• you want to self-host or mirror congressional data for analysis or an app
• you need incremental updates of only newly changed GovInfo files

When to avoid

• you need real-time congressional data with an API rather than batch scraping
• you need data about legislators rather than legislation (use congress-legislators)
• you need non-U.S. legislative data

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

web-scraping etl data-generation cli e-government crawlers python cli us-congress legislation govinfo public-domain-data civic-tech bills roll-call-votes data-engineering government open-data linux macos

Member repositories

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="unitedstates/congress")