# unitedstates/congress

Public domain data collectors for the work of Congress, including legislation, amendments, and votes.

Repository: https://github.com/unitedstates/congress
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/congress
Homepage: https://github.com/unitedstates/congress/wiki
Language: Python
License: CC0-1.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2025-10-05T11:46:32+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 52/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 45, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5124, "days_push": 332, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1060, forks 226 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:25.689070+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, etl, data-generation, cli
- domain: e-government, crawlers
- platform: python, cli
- tags: us-congress, legislation, govinfo, public-domain-data, civic-tech, bills, roll-call-votes, data-engineering, government, open-data, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- unitedstates/congress (main) score 52

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:25.689070+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:57:04.545331+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/unitedstates/congress (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:25.689070+00:00, sha 1c263ec1edc8)
  - homepage: https://github.com/unitedstates/congress/wiki (fetched 2026-08-29T12:59:08.677747+00:00, sha c7177dac7e1f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.