Congressmcp
@Alex Murshak
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
Server Config
{
"mcpServers": {
"congressmcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"congressmcp"
],
"env": {
"CONGRESSMCP_API_KEY": "your-api-key-here"
}
}
}
}