# Congressional Oversight & Investigations Tracker (`weirworks/congress-oversight-tracker`) Actor

One feed of congressional oversight activity: hearings and witnesses, committee reports, GAO reports, inspector general reports and executive actions, tagged by agency with keyword watchlists and new-item monitoring. Strictly neutral.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/weirworks/congress-oversight-tracker.md
- **Developed by:** [Weirworks](https://apify.com/weirworks) (community)
- **Categories:** News, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 oversight items

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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# README

## Congressional Oversight & Investigations Tracker

One clean feed of **congressional oversight activity** from official sources: hearing transcripts, committee reports, GAO audits, inspector general reports, executive actions and committee announcements. Every item is **tagged by the federal agencies it mentions** and checked against your **watchlist** (officials, agencies, companies, words like "subpoena" or "impeachment").

Oversight is set to intensify, whichever party controls the House after the 2026 midterms. This Actor is built for:

- law firms, compliance and government-relations teams preparing for congressional inquiries
- journalists and newsrooms
- watchdogs and think tanks
- investors tracking regulatory risk

It's **strictly neutral**: majority and minority committee feeds are both included, along with nonpartisan GAO and inspector general work.

### Sources

| Source | What it adds |
|---|---|
| GovInfo: congressional hearings | Newly published hearing transcripts (House and Senate) |
| GovInfo: committee reports | Committee reports, including investigative reports |
| GAO | GAO audit and investigation reports |
| DOJ Office of the Inspector General | DOJ IG audits, reviews and investigations |
| Federal Register | Executive orders, memoranda and proclamations |
| Senate committee schedule | Upcoming Senate hearings (when Congress is in session) |
| Committee press feeds | House Homeland Security, Ways & Means, Judiciary (majority and minority), Senate Finance |
| **Congress.gov committee meetings** | House and Senate hearings and markups: committee, status, location, **witness lists** and meeting documents |
| **Your own feeds** | Add any committee, inspector general or agency RSS/Atom feed |

### Output

```json
{
  "type": "gao_report",
  "source": "GAO reports",
  "title": "Tobacco Products: FDA Should Monitor Timeliness of Application Reviews",
  "date": "2026-09-30T00:00:00+00:00",
  "url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-...",
  "summary": "...",
  "agencies": ["HHS"],
  "matchedKeywords": [],
  "itemId": "a1b2c3d4e5f6a7b8"
}
```

`type` is one of:

- `hearing_transcript`, `committee_report`, `gao_report`, `inspector_general`, `executive_action`
- `committee_press`, `scheduled_hearing`, `committee_meeting`, `custom_feed`

Committee meetings also include `committee`, `chamber`, `meetingType`, `status`, `location`, `witnesses` and `documents`.

### Input

```json
{
  "daysBack": 14,
  "watchKeywords": ["subpoena", "impeach", "Inspector General", "tariff"],
  "onlyWatchlistMatches": false,
  "agencies": ["DHS", "DOJ"],
  "onlyNewItems": true
}
```

Schedule it daily with **Only new items** turned on for an oversight alert feed.

### Pricing

**$2 per 1,000 items.** No start fee.

### Notes

- In October of an election year Congress is mostly in recess, so new hearings are rare. Published transcripts, reports and GAO work keep flowing.
- Agency tagging uses name and acronym matching, which is fast but not perfect. Check important items at the source link.

Questions: open an issue or email **hello@weirworks.com**.

*Independent tool by weirworks. Not affiliated with the US Congress, GAO or any agency.*

# Actor input Schema

## `daysBack` (type: `integer`):

Items published in the last N days (scheduled hearings are always included).

## `sources` (type: `array`):

Leave empty for all sources.

## `watchKeywords` (type: `array`):

Names of officials, agencies, companies or topics to flag, e.g. <code>subpoena</code>, <code>impeach</code>, <code>Secretary Noem</code>, <code>tariff</code>. Matches appear in <code>matchedKeywords</code>.

## `onlyWatchlistMatches` (type: `boolean`):

Return only items that match a watchlist keyword.

## `agencies` (type: `array`):

Only items mentioning these agencies.

## `onlyNewItems` (type: `boolean`):

Skip items returned by earlier runs. Schedule daily for an oversight alert feed.

## `congressApiKey` (type: `string`):

Congress.gov committee meetings are included by default. Add your own free key from <a href='https://api.data.gov/signup/'>api.data.gov/signup</a> only if you run this very heavily.

## `maxCommitteeMeetings` (type: `integer`):

Most recently updated meetings are checked first.

## `customFeeds` (type: `array`):

Add any other committee, inspector general or agency feeds.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Not needed: official public sources.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "daysBack": 14,
  "onlyWatchlistMatches": false,
  "onlyNewItems": false,
  "maxCommitteeMeetings": 150,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

The dataset rows.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("weirworks/congress-oversight-tracker").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False } }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("weirworks/congress-oversight-tracker").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}' |
apify call weirworks/congress-oversight-tracker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,weirworks/congress-oversight-tracker"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/jlaoN2uejKe3BkbfI/builds/i2T69dAAB99dBw2WF/openapi.json