Access U.S. congressional data - bills, votes, members, committees - through MCP. STDIO & Streamable HTTP.
Most file and storage access work still happens through a UI a human drives. Congressgov MCP server moves it into the conversation instead. Access U.S. congressional data - bills, votes, members, committees - through MCP. STDIO & Streamable HTTP.
Because this one is hosted, setup is mostly authentication — you point your client at the endpoint and approve access. Nothing runs on your machine, so there is no runtime to keep patched.
The server publishes 13 tools. What each one is for:
congressgov_bill_lookup — Browse and retrieve U.S. legislative bill data — actions, sponsors, summaries, text, related billscongressgov_enacted_laws — Browse enacted public and private laws by congresscongressgov_member_lookup — Discover congressional members by state/district/congress, retrieve legislative portfolioscongressgov_committee_lookup — Browse congressional committees and their legislation, reports, and nominationscongressgov_roll_votes — Retrieve House and Senate roll call votes and individual member voting positionscongressgov_senate_nominations — Browse presidential nominations to federal positions and track the Senate confirmation processcongressgov_bill_summaries — Browse recent CRS bill summaries — the "what's happening" feedcongressgov_crs_reports — Browse and retrieve nonpartisan CRS policy analysis reportscongressgov_committee_reports — Browse and retrieve committee reports accompanying legislationcongressgov_daily_record — Browse the daily Congressional Record — floor speeches, debates, and proceedingscongressgov_search_bills — Keyword-search bill titles and CRS summaries via a local full-text mirror (opt-in, off by default)Prerequisites — The Prerequisites tool exposed by this serverConfiguration is passed through the environment: CONGRESS_API_KEY, DEMO_KEY, CONGRESS_API_BASE_URL. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
Plenty of file and storage access servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Congressgov's toolset — congressgov_bill_lookup, congressgov_enacted_laws, congressgov_member_lookup and 10 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by cyanheads; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| congressgov_bill_lookup | Browse and retrieve U.S. legislative bill data — actions, sponsors, summaries, text, related bills |
| congressgov_enacted_laws | Browse enacted public and private laws by congress |
| congressgov_member_lookup | Discover congressional members by state/district/congress, retrieve legislative portfolios |
| congressgov_committee_lookup | Browse congressional committees and their legislation, reports, and nominations |
| congressgov_roll_votes | Retrieve House and Senate roll call votes and individual member voting positions |
| congressgov_senate_nominations | Browse presidential nominations to federal positions and track the Senate confirmation process |
| congressgov_bill_summaries | Browse recent CRS bill summaries — the "what's happening" feed |
| congressgov_crs_reports | Browse and retrieve nonpartisan CRS policy analysis reports |
| congressgov_committee_reports | Browse and retrieve committee reports accompanying legislation |
| congressgov_daily_record | Browse the daily Congressional Record — floor speeches, debates, and proceedings |
| congressgov_search_bills | Keyword-search bill titles and CRS summaries via a local full-text mirror (opt-in, off by default) |
| Prerequisites | The Prerequisites tool exposed by this server. |
| Installation | The Installation tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"congressgov-mcp-server": {
"type": "streamable-http",
"url": "https://congressgov.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| CONGRESS_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| DEMO_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| CONGRESS_API_BASE_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
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