unitedstates/congress-legislators resource

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

A curated open dataset of United States Congress members from 1789 to present, plus committees, committee membership, and presidents/vice presidents, published in YAML, JSON, and CSV. It is maintained by the @unitedstates community under a CC0 public-domain license.

Use cases

• get a list of all current US senators and representatives
• look up historical members of Congress since 1789
• find committee memberships for Congress
• download congressional data as YAML or JSON for analysis
• find social media accounts of members of Congress
• get data on US presidents and vice presidents

When to choose

• you need structured, public-domain data on US legislators or committees
• you want machine-readable formats (YAML/JSON/CSV) with no licensing restrictions
• you need historical coverage back to 1789

When to avoid

• you need real-time voting records or bill data (use ProPublica/US Congress API instead)
• you need a GUI or API service rather than raw data files
• you need non-US legislative data

Facets

dataset · maturity active

data-science developer-tools e-government data-science apis cross-platform open-data yaml json csv us-congress legislators government-data public-domain

Member repositories

For agents

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