Policy & Funding Radar: Bills, Rules & Grants by Keyword

Give it a keyword. Get back one combined report: matching U.S. Congress bills, new Federal Register regulations, and open Grants.gov funding opportunities: three government portals, one search.

Who this is for

• Government-affairs and lobbying teams tracking legislative and regulatory activity on an issue.
• Nonprofits, universities, and research orgs scanning for both policy developments and funding opportunities on the same topic.
• Policy researchers and journalists who currently check congress.gov, federalregister.gov, and grants.gov separately for the same story.

Input

Field	Type	Description
keywords	array	One search per keyword, e.g. ["data centers", "broadband"].
daysBack	integer (default 30)	How far back to search across all three sources.
maxResultsPerSource	integer (default 10)	Cap on results per source, per keyword.

{
  "keywords": ["data centers"],
  "daysBack": 30
}

Output

One record per keyword:

{
  "keyword": "data centers",
  "daysBack": 30,
  "congressBills": [
    { "billNumber": "H.R. 1234", "title": "...", "status": "Introduced", "sponsorName": "...", "link": "..." }
  ],
  "federalRegisterDocuments": [
    { "documentNumber": "2026-12345", "title": "...", "type": "Rule", "agencies": ["Department of Energy"], "publicationDate": "2026-09-10", "htmlUrl": "..." }
  ],
  "grantOpportunities": [
    { "opportunityNumber": "...", "title": "...", "agency": "...", "openDate": "09/01/2026", "closeDate": "11/01/2026", "opportunityUrl": "..." }
  ],
  "totalItems": 7,
  "sourceErrors": [],
  "checkedAt": "2026-09-19T12:00:00.000Z"
}

If one source fails (a portal outage, for example) the other two still return normally: sourceErrors lists which source(s) failed and why, rather than failing the whole keyword.

How it works

Three official, direct API calls per keyword, no scraping, no proxy:

• GovTrack.us for Congress bills (same source as Congress Bill Tracker)
• Federal Register API for new rules, proposed rules, and notices (same source as Federal Register Tracker)
• Grants.gov API for open funding opportunities (same source as Grant Opportunity Tracker)

Pricing note

Billed per keyword searched, not per item returned: one charge covers the combined lookup across Congress bills, federal regulations, and grant opportunities for that keyword, whether it turns up zero results or dozens across all three sources.

Related products

• Congress Bill Tracker: bill search with more filters (status, sponsor state, specific Congress), not bundled with regulations or grants
• Federal Register Tracker: regulation search with agency/document-type filters
• Grant Opportunity Tracker: grant search with agency filters
• Federal Grant Award Tracker: grants already awarded, for tracking who got funded rather than what's open