This server provides 90+ tools for accessing live U.S. Congressional data via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Bills & Laws: Search bills; retrieve details, text, summaries, titles, subjects, actions, amendments, cosponsors, and committee assignments. Access enacted public and private laws.
Amendments: Search amendments; get details, sponsors, actions, text, and sub-amendments.
Treaties & Summaries: Search treaties and retrieve their actions, committee assignments, and text; search bill summaries by keyword and congress.
Members of Congress: Search by name, state, party, chamber, district, or congress; get detailed profiles and biographical/term info; find legislation sponsored or cosponsored by a member.
Committees: Search by chamber and type; retrieve associated bills, reports, communications, nominations, prints, and meeting schedules.
Voting & Nominations: Access House votes and roll calls with individual member records; search presidential nominations, their actions, hearings, and nominees.
Congressional Records & Hearings: Search daily and bound Congressional Records, House/Senate communications, and hearing details and content.
Research & Analytics: Search CRS reports, retrieve congress metadata and statistics, and perform legislative trend analysis across historical congresses.
Used for issue tracking, bug reports and feature requests for the Congress.gov API service.
Supports deployment of the Congress.gov API server with configuration via Procfile for automatic scaling and environment management.
Provides email service functionality for sending authentication magic links and other communications to users of the congressional data service.
Handles payment processing for subscription tiers, supporting monthly and annual billing for Pro tier access with increased API call limits.
Used for database functionality including user authentication, usage tracking, and storing API usage statistics for the congressional data service.
Click on "Install Server".
Wait a few minutes for the server to deploy. Once ready, it will show a "Started" state.
In the chat, type @ followed by the MCP server name and your instructions, e.g., "@CongressMCP-full Find recent climate change bills in the current Congress"
That's it! The server will respond to your query, and you can continue using it as needed.
Here is a step-by-step guide with screenshots.
91+ congressional data tools for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, and any MCP client.
Access live U.S. Congressional data — bills, votes, members, committees, hearings, and more — through natural language via the Model Context Protocol.
Sign up at api.congress.gov/sign-up (takes 30 seconds, completely free).
Claude Desktop — add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"congressmcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["congressmcp"],
"env": {
"CONGRESS_API_KEY": "your-api-key-here"
}
}
}
}VS Code — add to .vscode/mcp.json:
{
"servers": {
"congressmcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["congressmcp"],
"env": {
"CONGRESS_API_KEY": "your-api-key-here"
}
}
}
}Cursor — add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json using the same format as VS Code.
"Find recent climate change bills in the 119th Congress" "How did senators from California vote on the latest defense bill?" "Who are the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee?" "What's the latest action on H.R. 1234?"
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7 toolsets, 90+ operations covering the Congress.gov API:
Toolset | Operations | What it does |
Bills | 16 | Search, details, text, actions, amendments, cosponsors, subjects |
Laws | 2 | Enacted public/private laws by congress ( |
Amendments | 7 | Search, details, actions, sponsors, text |
Treaties & Summaries | 5 | Treaty search, actions, committees, text; bill summaries |
Members & Committees | 13 | Member search by name/state/district, sponsored legislation, committee bills/reports/communications |
Voting & Nominations | 13 | House/Senate votes, nominations, roll calls |
Records & Hearings | 10+ | Congressional Record, hearings, CRS reports, committee prints |
search_committees and search_summaries take an optional keywords argument —
omit it to browse/list (committees can also be filtered by chamber/committee_type).
git clone https://github.com/amurshak/congressMCP
cd congressMCP
pip install -e .
# stdio (default — for MCP clients)
CONGRESS_API_KEY=your-key congressmcp
# HTTP (for self-hosting / remote access)
congressmcp --transport streamable-http --port 8000Variable | Required | Default | Description |
| Yes | — | Your free Congress.gov API key |
| No |
| Transport mode ( |
| No |
| Cache API responses in memory |
| No |
| Cache TTL in seconds |
Fork the repository
Create a feature branch
Submit a pull request
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Built for government transparency and accessible civic data.
Unclaimed servers have limited discoverability.
If you are the server author, to access and configure the admin panel.
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Nonpartisan U.S. Congress data: bill decodes, rep lookup, bilingual EN/ES, read-only, no accounts.
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