Source systems
Congress.gov Data
Congress.gov-derived records are ingested as raw payloads, parsed into normalized tables, and served through shared search/detail services.
Auth
Authorization: Bearer API key
Current base
/api/legislative
Version target
/api/v1
Available categories
- Bills, laws, amendments, committees, legislators, summaries, subjects, actions, related bills, text versions, cached text analysis, deterministic signals, affected sectors, and House votes.
- Secondary Congress.gov endpoint families such as treaties, nominations, hearings, reports, prints, communications, and Congressional Record are tracked as expansion families and should receive public/API docs when exposed.
Source attribution
Responses are compiled by LawLinter from official source payloads. They are useful for search and analysis, but official government pages remain authoritative for legal status and source text.
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