Congress Bill Tracker

Track new U.S. federal bills and resolutions by keyword, legislative status, or Congress number, from the official Congress.gov bill status data: bill number, title, sponsor, chamber, and current status.

Built for policy, government-affairs, and lobbying teams who need to catch new bills touching a topic without checking congress.gov by hand.

Input

{
  "keyword": "climate",
  "currentStatus": "",
  "congress": null,
  "daysBack": 7,
  "maxResults": 25
}

Field	Type	Description
keyword	string (optional)	Words to find in bill titles (short and official titles), e.g. "climate" or "broadband". Every word must appear; singular and plural both match. Use "quotes" for an exact phrase and an uppercase OR for alternatives, e.g. artificial intelligence OR AI. Leave blank for all recently introduced bills.
currentStatus	string (optional)	Filter to one exact legislative status, e.g. "introduced", "reported", "passed_bill", "enacted_signed", "vetoed_pocket". See the input schema description for the full list. An unknown value stops the run and lists the valid ones.
congress	number (optional)	Limit to one numbered Congress, e.g. 119 for the current 2025-2027 Congress.
daysBack	number	Only return bills introduced within this many days. Default 7, max 365.
maxResults	number	Max bills to return, newest first. Default 25, max 100.

Output

One record per matching bill:

{
  "billNumber": "H.R. 10570",
  "title": "To limit the enforceability of predispute nondisclosure contract clauses relating to the building of data centers, and for other purposes.",
  "congress": 119,
  "chamber": "house",
  "status": "Introduced",
  "statusDate": "2026-09-24",
  "introducedDate": "2026-09-24",
  "isAlive": true,
  "sponsorName": "Rep. Greg Landsman [D-OH1]",
  "sponsorParty": "Democrat",
  "sponsorState": "OH",
  "link": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/10570"
}

• status uses GovTrack's well-known status labels ("Introduced", "Ordered Reported", "Passed House (Senate next)", "Passed House & Senate (President next)", and so on), and currentStatus takes the matching codes.
• chamber is where the bill goes next: the originating chamber while it is in committee, the other chamber after it passes one, and empty once no further floor action is pending.
• isAlive is false once a bill is enacted, fails, or its Congress has ended.

How it works

Bill records come from the official BILLSTATUS bulk data that the Government Publishing Office publishes on GovInfo from Congress.gov: one public-domain XML file per bill, with its titles, sponsor, and full action history. No API key, no account, no proxy, and no scraping of web pages.

The actor walks each bill type from the newest bill number down, stops once it passes your daysBack window, and works out each bill's current status from its action history using the same rules as the open-source unitedstates/congress project that GovTrack.us relies on.

New bills usually appear in the bulk data the next business day. A keyword or status search over a long window checks more bills and takes longer: a 90-day keyword search reads about 2,000 bill records.

Pricing note

Billed per search, not per bill returned: one charge whether the search returns 0 bills or 100.

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