#congress

This is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server designed to provide access to the official Congress.gov API (v3) using a hybrid approach.

An MCP server for the Congress.gov API that consolidates 91 operations into 6 comprehensive tools that can be used by any MCP client (i.e. Claude Desktop), or MCP-compatible AI agent, to query and reason about congressional data. It has: full coverage of the Congress.gov APi, an NPM published bridge to enable stdio on local MCP clients, a web server over http transport, authentication, account and API key management. Use cases organized by user type: Policy Professionals: - Track bills by keyword ("AI", "climate") - Monitor swing-state voting patterns - Research bill co-sponsors and amendments Government Affairs: - Daily briefings: "What happened in Congress yesterday?" - Voting history for upcoming meetings - Industry-specific legislative tracking Journalists: - Find voting pattern changes - Background research on members - Story leads from committee activities AI Workflows: - "Summarize all crypto bills and status" - Generate weekly legislative updates - Create talking points for hearings