關鍵字 / Keywords: 美國國會 議員 提案 附署 立法紀錄 投票 member sponsored cosponsored voting record legislation bioguide congress
Scope: US Congress member's legislative record (sponsored + cosponsored bills across all their sessions).
IMPORTANT: Congress.gov's API does NOT expose per-member roll-call votes indexed by member. Roll-call XMLs at clerk.house.gov / senate.gov are unindexed by member. This tool returns the closest structured proxy: which bills the member introduced (sponsored) or cosponsored — the signal most commonly meant by "voting record".
Endpoints: GET https://api.congress.gov/v3/member/{bid}/sponsored-legislation GET https://api.congress.gov/v3/member/{bid}/cosponsored-legislation
Args:
bioguide_id: member's bioguide id (e.g. S001176 for Rep.
Steve Scalise) — get from us_search_members.
Format: one letter + 6 digits.
include_cosponsored: also pull cosponsored bills (second call).
limit: max rows per endpoint (sponsored + cosponsored counted
separately; hard cap 250 each).
Returns dict with sponsored_bills[], cosponsored_bills[], plus
sponsored_total_available / cosponsored_total_available from
Congress.gov pagination so agents know if there's more to page.
Each bill row carries title, latest_action_*, policy_area,
original_url to www.congress.gov. License: US Public Domain.